Section 146 of the Evidence Act 2011 – What it Says and All You Need to Know.
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Section 146 of the Evidence Act 2011 Provides as Follows:
(1) The court shall presume every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which purports to be duly certified by any officer in Nigeria who is duly authorised in that behalf to be genuine, provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2) The court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified, held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such document.
Other Relevant Sections:
- Section 147 of the Evidence Act 2011
- Section 148 of the Evidence Act 2011
- Section 149 of the Evidence Act 2011