Section 70

The following public documents may be proved as follows-

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acts, orders or notifications of the Government of Brunei

by the records of the departments certified by the heads of those departments respectively, or by the Minister having the responsibility for that department; or

the proceedings of the Legislative Council, by the minutes of that body or by published Acts or Orders or abstracts or by copies purporting to be printed by the authority of the Government;

the acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the legislature of a foreign country or territory, by journals published by their authority or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or territory or sovereign, or by a recognition thereof in some public Act of Brunei Darussalam;

the proceedings of a Municipal Board or local Council in Brunei

public documents of any other class in a foreign country or territory, by the original or by a copy certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a Brunei Darussalam Consul that the copy is duly certified by the officer having ·the custody of the original and upon proof of the character of the document according to the law of the foreign country or territory.