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38 & 3.9 Vict. Cap. 60, ss. 38, 39.
tions respectively, and such sums, of money for defray
ing the expenses of office rent, salaries of assistants, clerics,
and servants, remuneration for actuaries, accountants, and
inspectors, computation of tables, publication of docu
ments, diffusion of information, expenses of prosecutions,
travelling expenses and other allowances of the chief or
any assistant registrar, and other expenses which may be
incurred for carrrying out the purposes of this Act, and
may also pay to any public auditors or valuers to be ap
pointed under this Act such remuneration (if any) as the
Treasury shall from time to time allow (d).
38. Regulations to be made for carrying out the Act.—The
Treasury may from time to time make regulations [called
the Treasury regulations, see Act of 1876, s. 2], respecting
registry and procedure under this Act, and the seal and
forms to be used for such registry, and the duties and func
tions of the registrar, and the inspection of documents kept
by the registrar under this Act, and generally for carrying
this Act into effect.
All such regulations shall be laid before both Houses of
Parliament within ten days after the approval thereof it
parliament is then sitting, or if not then sitting, then within
ten days from the then next assembling of parliament.
Until otherwise provided, the forms contained in the
fourth schedule to this Act shall be used (e).
39. Evidence of documents.—!Every instrument or docu
ment, copy or extract of an instrument or document, bear
ing the seal or stamp of the central office, shall be received
] n evidence without further proof; and every document
Purporting to be signed by the chief or any assistant regis
trar, or any inspector, or public auditor or valuer under
this Act, shall, in the absence of any evidence to the con
trary, be received in evidence without proof of the signa-
(/)■
(d) This section is founded on 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 8, with
amendments.
(e) This section is new. Sec Treasury regulations 59 to 64 and
form AV.
(/) See 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 30.