Malaysia legislation
Section 40
Section 40
(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 State Records and Archives; or
(b)
any records or any part thereof which have been destroyed or otherwise disposed of from the custody or the control of the State
Records and Archives, purporting to have been examined and certified as authentic by the Director and to be sealed or stamped with the official seal of the Director 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.
Authentication of photographic copies and extracts