The Evidence (Cayman Islands) Order 1965 No. 313

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1965 No. 313

EVIDENCE

The Evidence (Cayman Islands) Order 1965

Made

26th February 1965

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of February 1965

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas Her Majesty in Council is satisfied that there exist in the Cayman Islands public registers kept under the law of those Islands and recognised by the courts thereof as authentic records, and that those registers are regularly and properly kept:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in the exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 5(1) of the Oaths and Evidence (Overseas Authorities and Countries) Act 1963, and all other powers in that behalf in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. The registers of the Cayman Islands specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be deemed to be public registers kept under the authority of the law of those Islands and recognised by the courts thereof as authentic records, and to be documents of such a public nature as to be admissible as evidence of the matters regularly recorded therein.

2. For the purposes of the preceding Article all matters recorded in the register shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded.

3. Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in the Cayman Islands as an official copy of an entry in a register specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order and which purports to be authenticated by an officer of the said Islands in the manner specified in that Schedule, shall, without evidence as to the custody of the register or of inability to produce it and without any further or other proof, be received as evidence that the register contains such an entry.

4. Nothing in this Order shall be taken to prohibit or restrict the admission in evidence of any copy, extract, summary, certificate or other document whatsoever which, apart from the provisions of this Order, would be admissible as evidence of any particular matter, or to affect any power which, otherwise than by virtue of this Order, is exercisable by any court with respect to the admission of documents in evidence.

5.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Evidence (Cayman Islands) Order 1965.

(2) This Order extends to all parts of the United Kingdom.

W. G. Agnew

Section 1

SCHEDULE

RegisterCertifying OfficersMode of Authentication
General Register of BirthsThe Registrar-GeneralThe signature and seal of the Registrar-General.
Register of MarriagesThe Registrar-General or a Marriage OfficerThe signature and seal of the Registrar-General or the signature of the Marriage Officer concerned.
General Register of DeathsThe Registrar-GeneralThe signature and seal of the Registrar-General.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order makes entries contained in specified public registers of the Cayman Islands admissible in evidence in the United Kingdom and provides for their proof by official certificates.


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