Malaysia legislation
Section 42
Section 42
Legal validity of photographic copies and extracts
(1)
In any legal proceedings, a microfilm recording and a photographic copy of or an extract from—
(a)
any records in the custody or under the control of the
National Archives; or
(b)
any records or any part thereof which have been destroyed or otherwise disposed of from the custody or under the control of the National Archives, purporting to have been examined and certified as authentic by the
Director General and to be sealed or stamped with the official seal of the Director General shall be admissible as evidence without any further or other proof thereof if the original records would have been admissible as evidence in those proceedings.
(2)
The court before which a microfilm recording, a photographic copy or an extract is tendered in evidence under subsection (1)
may, if the original is in existence, require the production of the original and thereupon subsection (1) shall cease to apply to the recording, copy or extract.
(3)
For the purpose of this section, enlargement of microfilm recordings of records shall be deemed to be photographic copies of those records.