Section 3

Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person authorised by this section to administer an oath or affirmation in testimony of any oath, affirmation, affidavit or act being administered, taken or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order direct that so much of subsection (2) as relates to the proof of notarial acts done in any country or place outside Malaysia by diplomatic and consular officers of Malaysia shall apply in relation to notarial acts done by such persons as may be specified in the order, being persons serving in the diplomatic, consular or other foreign service of a

Power which, by arrangement with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, has undertaken to represent the interest of Malaysia in any country or place in which Malaysia has for the time being no diplomatic or consular representatives.

For the purposes of this section “oath” includes any oath required to be taken for the purposes of the Constitution provided that such oath is taken before a diplomatic or consular officer who is himself a citizen of Malaysia.

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