# Non-Parochial Registers Act 1840, Section 13: Certified extracts may be used in evidence on examination of witnesses, or at the hearing of the cause in courts of equity, upon notice.


In case any party shall intend to use in evidence on any examination of witnesses, or at the hearing of any cause in any court of equity, any extract, certified as herein-before mentioned, he shall, ten clear days at the least before publication shall pass in any cause where no commission has issued for the examination of the witnesses of the party intending to give such evidence or, where such commission shall issue, then seven clear days at the least before the opening of such commission, deliver to the clerk or clerks in court of the opposite party or parties a notice in writing of his intention to use such certified extract in evidence on the examination of witnesses or at the hearing of the cause (as the case may be), and shall at the same time deliver to the clerk or clerks in court of the opposite party or parties a copy or copies of such extract, and of the certificate thereof, and thereupon such certificated extract shall be received in evidence; provided that at the hearing of the cause the service of such certified copy and notice be admitted or proved by affidavit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/3-4/92/section/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-parochial-registers-act-1840/section-13
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