Malaysia legislation
Section 24
Section 24
Authentication of foreign documents
Foreign warrants and depositions or statements on oath and copies thereof, and foreign certificates of or judicial documents stating the fact of a conviction, shall be deemed duly authenticated for the purposes of this Act if authenticated in the manner provided for the time being by law or authenticated as follows:
(a)
if the warrant purports to be signed by a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the country where the same was issued;
(b)
if the depositions or statements or the copies thereof purport to be certified under the hand of a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the country where the same were taken to be the original depositions or statements, or to be true copies thereof, as the case may require; or
(c)
if the certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of conviction purports to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate or officer of the country where the conviction took place;
and if in every case the warrant, depositions, statement, copies, certificates and judicial documents (as the case may be) are authenticated by the oath of some witness or being sealed with the
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Extradition official seal of the Minister of Justice or some other Minister of
State; and all courts in Malaysia shall take judicial notice of such official seal and shall admit the documents so authenticated by it to be received in evidence without further proof.