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Evidence (Special Provisions) Act (No. 14 of 1995) - Sect 6

Affidavit Evidence

6.
(1) Whore any party proposes to tender any evidence under section 4 or 5 of this Act in any proceeding, an affidavit dealing with any of the fallowing matters, that to-
(a) if such evidence consists of a recording or reproduction, that it is a contemporaneous recording of a fact sought to be proved in such proceeding or a reproduction thereof, and that the recording or reproduction satisfies the conditions set out in paragraphs (a), (b)t (c) and (d) of subsection (l) of section 4;
(b) if such evidence consists of a transcript, translation, conversion or transformation, as the case may be of a recording or reproduction, that such recording or reproduction satisfies any of the conditions set out in subsection (3) of section 4 ;
(c) If such evidence consists of a duplicate as provided for in subsection (5) of section 4 that such duplicate is authentic and has been produced by a duplicating process;
(d) If such evidence consists of Information contained in any statement produced by a computer, that such statement was Produced by a computer and that the conditions set out in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 5 have been satisfied to respect of such statement and computer;
(e) If such evidence consists of a transcript, translation, conversion or transformation, as the case may be, of a statement produced by a computer, that suck statement satisfies any of the conditions set out is
(f) if such evidence consists of the duplicate a* provided for in subsection (3) of section 5, that such duplicate is authentic and has been produced by a duplicating machine,
(2) For the purpose of this section it shall be sufficient for a matter to be stated to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person stating it ;


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