Article 5

Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in any of the said States and District as an official copy of an entry in any such register as aforesaid and which purports to be authenticated as such by the signature of any person appearing to be the officer specified in the third column of the Schedule or any other officer who may from time to time be authorised to perform the certifying functions at present performed by the officer so specified shall, without evidence as to the custody of the register or of inability to produce it and without any further or other proof, be received as evidence that the register contains such an entry.