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38  &  3.9  Vict.  Cap.  60,  ss.  38,  39.

tions  respectively,  and  such  sums,  of  money  for  defraying ­
  the  expenses  of  office  rent,  salaries  of  assistants,  clerics,
and  servants,  remuneration  for  actuaries,  accountants,  and
inspectors,  computation  of  tables,  publication  of  documents, ­
  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  appointed ­
  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  functions ­
  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  document, ­
  copy  or  extract  of  an  instrument  or  document,  bearing ­
  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  registrar, ­
  or  any  inspector,  or  public  auditor  or  valuer  under
this  Act,  shall,  in  the  absence  of  any  evidence  to  the  contrary, ­
  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.