Section 16 Certified extract to be used in ecclesiastical courts; and the Judge may order the production of the original.C1

In case any party shall intend to use in evidence in any ecclesiastical court, or in the F1High Court, any extract, certified as herein-before mentioned, he shall plead and prove the same in the same manner to all intents and purposes as if the same were an extract from a parish register, save and except that any such extract, certified as herein-before mentioned, shall be pleaded and received in proof without its being necessary to prove the collation of such extract with the original register or record: Provided always, that the judge of the court, on cause shown by any party to the suit (or of his own motion when the proceedings are in poenam), may, after publication, issue a monition for the production at the hearing of the cause of the original register or record containing the entry to which such certified extract relates.