Presidential Seal Act, 1937

The presidential seal.

2.—(1) Immediately on the commencement of this Act, the Minister for Finance shall provide an official seal (in this Act referred to as the presidential seal) for the President.

(2) The presidential seal shall be officially and judicially noticed and every order, commission, warrant, or other instrument sealed with the presidential seal shall, if such seal purports to be authenticated in accordance with this Act, be received in evidence without further proof and, in particular, it shall not be necessary to prove any signature affixed to such instrument for the purpose of such authentication or to prove the office or authority of the person whose signature such signature purports to be.

(3) The presidential seal affixed to an order, commission, warrant, or other instrument shall be evidence, until the contrary is proved, that every (if any) advice, consultation, consent, or other thing which is, under the Constitution or otherwise by law, a condition precedent to the making of such instrument by the President was duly given, made, or done before such instrument was made by the President or, in the case of an instrument made by a Commission, by such Commission.