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g. if the document in question is a public document, by tendering a document, that was
purports to have been printed by the Government Printery, or by the authority of the

government of a foreign country, and is or purports to be a copy of the document in
question.

A party may adduce evidence of the contents of a document in question that is unavailable by
tendering a document that is a copy of, or a faithful extract from, or summary of the document in

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question, or by adducing oral evidence of the contents of the document in question.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines- Evidence Act Cap 220 section 31(1), (2)

Where any book or other document is of such a public nature as to be admissible in evidence on

its mere production from proper custody and no written law exists which renders its contents
provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extracts shall be admissible in evidence in any

court provided it is proved to be an examined copy or extract by the officer to whose custody he
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original is entrusted.

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Copies of public documents are admissible in evidence. The officer shall furnish such certified
copy or extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same upon payment of a

reasonable sum not exceeding fifty cents for every folio of ninety words.

Trinidad and Tobago

Whenever any question arises in any action, suit, information, or other proceeding in or before
any Court of Justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to

hear, receive, and examine evidence touching the admissibility or the sufficiency of any

evidence, or the competency or obligation of any witness to give evidence, or the swearing of
any witness, or the form of oath or of affirmation to be used by any witness, or the admissibility

of any question put to any witness, or the admissibility or sufficiency of any document, writing,

39 St. Lucia – Evidence Act Cap. 4.15, section 122(3)
40 St. Vincent and the Grenadines – Evidence Act Cap. 220, section 31(1)(2)
41 St. Vincent and the Grenadines – Evidence Act Cap. 220, section 34
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