Presidential Seal Act, 1937

Proof of presidential instruments.

4.—(1) Prima facie evidence of any order, commission, warrant or other instrument issued or made by the President or by a commission exercising the powers or performing the functions of the President may be given in all Courts of Justice and in all legal proceedings by the production of a copy of the Iris Oifigiúil purporting to contain such instrument or by the production of a copy of such instrument purporting to be printed under the superintendence or authority of and to be published by the Stationery Office.

(2) Section 6 of the Documentary Evidence Act, 1925 (No. 24 of 1925), shall apply to every order, commission, warrant or other instrument issued or made by the President or by a commission exercising the powers or performing the functions of the President in like manner as it applies to the official documents mentioned in that section.

(3) In this section, the expression “the Stationery Office” has the same meaning as it has in the Documentary Evidence Act, 1925 (No. 24 of 1925).