MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 3 Evidence of acts of Ministry.

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MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 3

Evidence of acts of Ministry.

3.(1) Every document purporting to be a regulation, order, licence,
certificate or other instrument issued by any Ministry named as aforesaid, and
to be sealed with the seal of the Ministry authenticated in manner provided by
this Act, or purporting to be signed by a secretary or assistant secretary of
the Ministry or other officer of the Ministry authorised by the Minister in
that behalf, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such
regulation, order, licence, certificate or other instrument without further
proof, unless the contrary is shown.

(2) A certificate signed by the Minister or by a secretary or assistant
secretary of such Ministry that any regulation, order, licence, certificate or
other instrument purporting to be made or issued by the Ministry is so made or
issued shall be conclusive evidence of the facts so certified.

(3) The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by the
Documentary Evidence Act, 1882, shall apply to such Ministry in like manner as
if

(a)the Ministry were mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to the
first-mentioned Act, and the Minister or a secretary or assistant secretary of
the Ministry were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule;

(b)the regulations referred to in those Acts included any document issued by
the Ministry;

(c)the term "Government Printer" used in those Acts included any printer
purporting to be the printer authorised to print the statutes of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland or otherwise to be the Government Printer of
Northern Ireland; and

(d)the term "Gazette" used in those Acts included the Belfast Gazette.

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MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 3