Section 22

In an action for libel or slander in which the question whether a person did or did not commit a criminal offence is relevant to an issue arising in the action, proof that, at the time when the issue falls to be determined, that person stands convicted of that offence, shall be conclusive evidence that he committed that offence; and his conviction thereof shall be admissible in evidence accordingly.

The contents of any document which is admissible as evidence of the conviction shall, without prejudice to the reception of any other admissible evidence, to identify the facts on which the conviction was based, be admissible in evidence to identify those facts.

Where the contents of a document are admissible by virtue of subsection (2), a copy of that document, purporting to be certified by the

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court concerned shall be taken to be a true copy of that document, unless the contrary is shown.