Section 79
of Evidence Act
ActIn forceProvision 86 of 190
Section 79
(1)
The court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact, and which purports to be duly certified by any officer in Brunei Darussalam who is duly authorised thereto:
Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2)
The court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such document.
Evidence 66
Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence.