Sec. 4 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT, 1925

Proof of rules, regulations and byelaws.

Proof of rules, regulations and byelaws.

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4.—(1) Prima facie evidence of any rules, orders, regulations, or byelaws to which this section applies, may be given in all Courts of Justice and in all legal proceedings by the production of a copy of the Iris Oifigiúil purporting to contain such rules, orders, regulations, or byelaws or by the production of a copy of such rules, orders, regulations, or byelaws printed under the superintendence or authority of and published by the Stationery Office.

(2) This section applies to all rules, orders, regulations and byelaws made under the authority of any British Statute or any Act of the Oireachtas by—

(a) the Governor-General on the advice of the Executive Council, or

(b) the Executive Council, or

(c) a Minister, or

(d) any statutory body, corporate or unincorporate, exercising throughout the whole of Saorstát Eireann any function of government or discharging throughout the whole of Saorstát Eireann any public duties in relation to public administration.

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