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Evidence as to the registers. | 
23.— In any legal proceedings— | 
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(a) a document signed by the registrar stating— | 
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(i) what is or is not registered, | 
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(ii) what was or was not registered and when, | 
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is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the matters stated, | 
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(b) a printed document— | 
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(i) appearing to be a copy of any part of or an extract from a register, and | 
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(ii) bearing a signed statement by the registrar that it is such a copy or extract, | 
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is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the content of so much of the register that is copied or extracted, | 
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(c) a signature appearing to be the registrar’s on any such document is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be taken as being the registrar’s. |