Local Government (Galway) Act, 1937

Admissibility in evidence of books of District Council.

34.—(1) All books and other documents directed or authorised by or under any statute to be kept by the District Council and which, immediately before the appointed day, would be receivable in evidence shall, notwithstanding the dissolution of the District Council be admissible in evidence after the appointed day as fully as if this Act had not been passed.

(2) Whenever an extract from or certificate of the contents of any book or other document directed or authorised by or under any statute or order to be kept by the District Council would, if verified by a particular officer of the District Council, have been admissible immediately before the appointed day as evidence of such contents, an extract from or certificate of the contents of such book or document shall, if verified by the officer of the Corporation corresponding to such particular officer, be admitted, on or after the appointed day, as evidence of such contents to the same extent as such first-mentioned extract or certificate would have been admitted if this Act had not been passed.