{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/452",
  "legislation_title": "The Fugitive Offenders (Anguilla) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Evidence.",
  "text": "(1) In any proceedings under this Act, including proceedings on an application for habeas corpus in respect of a person in custody thereunder—\n(a) a document, duly authenticated, which purports to set out evidence given on oath in the United Kingdom or a designated Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland or a United Kingdom dependency (other than Anguilla) shall be admissible as evidence of the matters stated therein;\n(b) a document, duly authenticated, which purports to have been received in evidence, or to be a copy of a document so received, in any proceeding in any such country or dependency shall be admissible in evidence;\n(c) a document, duly authenticated, which certifies that a person was convicted on a date specified in the document of an offence against the law of, or of a part of, any such country or dependency shall be admissible as evidence of the fact and date of the conviction.\n(2) A document shall be deemed to be duly authenticated for the purposes of this section—\n(a) in the case of a document purporting to set out evidence given as aforesaid, if the document purports to be certified by a judge or magistrate or officer in or of the country or dependency in question to be the original document containing or recording that evidence or a true copy of such a document;\n(b) in the case of a document which purports to have been received in evidence as aforesaid or to be a copy of a document so received, if the document purports to be certified as aforesaid to have been, or to be a true copy of a document which has been, so received;\n(c) in the case of a document which certifies that a person was convicted as aforesaid, if the document purports to be certified as aforesaid,\nand in any such case the document is authenticated either by the oath of a witness or by the official seal of the Secretary of State or of a Minister of the designated Commonwealth country or of the Republic of Ireland or of the Governor or a Minister, secretary or other officer administering a department of the Government of the dependency, as the case may be.\n(3) In this section “oath” includes affirmation or declaration; and nothing in this section shall prejudice the admission in evidence of any document which is admissible in evidence apart from this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/452/schedule/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:34.887920+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}