Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsCopies purporting to be authenticated by the surveyor general admissible in evidence instead of originals
| 22.Any cadastral map, plan or any other plan or map prepared in accordance with any written law Purporting to be a true copy of such a plan or map and purporting to be signed by the surveyor general or any officer acting on his behalf shall be admissible evidence in all cases and for all purposes instead of the original and may be taken as prima facie evidence of the truth of the facts stated there in as being that of the original and it shall not be necessary to prove that such copy was infact signed or authenticated by the surveyor-general or such officer nor that it is a true copy. Nor that the facts reflected there in are accurate. Until evidence to the contrary shall have first been given. |