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d. by production (in the case of any document issued by or under the authority of any of the
departments or officer, or being a record in any such department of the Government) of a

copy or extract purporting to be certified to be true by the person or persons specified in
the second column of the said Second Schedule in connection with such department or

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officer.
Any copy or extract made in pursuance of this Part may be in print or in writing, or partly in

print and partly in writing. No proof shall be required of the handwriting or official position of

any person certifying in pursuance of this Part to the truth of any copy of or extract from any
document.

In this section “Minister” means the Minister responsible for the subject matter in respect of
which the document was issued and “Permanent Secretary” means the Permanent Secretary to

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the Minister.
Where an original document cannot be found : Calcraft v Guest [1898] 1 QB 759

(d) Admissions of Exhibits

Anguilla

Any document or object referred to as an exhibit and identified in a written statement taken as

evidence pursuant to section 76 shall be treated as if it has been produced as an exhibit and
identified by the magistrate by the maker of the statement and that document or object shall,

wherever possible, be identified by means of a label or other means of identification signed by
the maker of the statement.

Before the magistrate treats any document or object referred to as an exhibit in a written
statement as an exhibit produced and identified before the magistrate, he shall be satisfied that

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the document or object is sufficient described in the written statement for it to be identified.

44 Trinidad and Tobago – Evidence Act Chap. 7:02, section 22
45 Trinidad and Tobago – Evidence Act Chap. 7:02, section 22(2)
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