No. 62 of 1993: Documentary Evidence from Countries in Africa Act, 1993.
To provide for the admissibility in the Republic of documentary evidence emanating from certain countries in Africa; and for matters connected therewith.
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 29 April 1993.
"Minister" means the Minister of Justice.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Rules of Court made or in force under section 6 of the Rules Board for Courts of Law Act, 1985 (Act No. 107 of 1985), or in any other law, but subject to the provisions of section 3, any document purporting to have been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed in a designated country shall, for the purposes of its admissibility as evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings in the Republic, be deemed to have been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed in the Republic.
If under any law a document is admissible in evidence in civil or criminal proceedings if it has been prepared, attested, certified, compiledor executed by a particular institution or by a person holding a particularoffice, possessing a particular qualification, performing a particular function or engaged in a particular activity, a similar document emanating from a designated country shall, for the purposes of such law and subject to the provisions of section 4, be admissible only if it appears on the face thereof to have been prepared, attested, certified, compiled or executed by an institution in the designated country in question or by a person in such country holding an office, possessing a qualification, performing a function or engaged in an activity equivalent to thecorresponding institution in the Republic or to the office, qualification, function or activity of the corresponding person in the Republic, contemplated in such law.
declare that a particular institution, office, qualification. function or activity in a designated country is equivalent to an institution, office, qualification, function or activity in the Republic mentioned in such notice.
This Act shall be called the Documentary Evidence from Countries in Africa Act, 1993.