Article 4 Payments in discharge of liabilities of Southern Rhodesia Government

Where during the period between 11th November 1965 and the commencement of this Order any payment made in purported discharge or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any liability of the Government of Southern Rhodesia to any person has been made to that person or to his agent, assigns or personal representatives by or under the purported authority of any person or body of persons in Southern Rhodesia claiming to be the Government of that country or to be an officer or authority of that Government, that liability shall be regarded as having been duly discharged or satisfied in whole or, as the case may be, in part as if the payment had been lawfully made on behalf of the Crown in right of that Government.

Where any entry was made in any register or other written record kept in Southern Rhodesia during the period between 11th November 1965 and the commencement of this Order relating to any such payment as is referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, a copy of that entry certified to be a true copy under the hand of a person appointed by Her Majesty to administer the Government of Southern Rhodesia or any officer of the Government of Southern Rhodesia acting on his behalf shall on its mere production from the custody of an officer or agent of the Government of Southern Rhodesia be evidence or, in Scotland, sufficient evidence of the matters in that entry relating to that payment and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed correctly to state those matters.

This Article shall extend to Southern Rhodesia as part of its law.