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Part VII · Miscellaneous

Section 75

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(1)

A document purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a foreign State and purporting to state the terms of—

(a)

a corresponding law in force in that foreign State; or

(b)

a law in relation to a foreign serious offence in force in that foreign State, shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving the matters referred to in subsection (2) in any proceedings under this Act on its production by the Attorney General or by any person duly authorized by him in writing.

(2)

A document shall be sufficient evidence—

(a)

if issued by or on behalf of the government of the foreign

State stated in the document;

(b)

that the terms of the corresponding law or the law of the foreign State are as stated in the document; and

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(c)

that any fact stated in the document as constituting an offence under that law does constitute such offence.

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