Section 599. Evidentiary value of copies certified by Registrar

(1) A copy or extract from any document filed or lodged at the office of the Registrar certified to be a true copy or extract signed and sealed by the Registrar shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings as of equal validity with the original document.

(2) The reference in subsection (1) to a document includes, if a reproduction or transparency of that document has been incorporated with a register kept by the Registrar, a reference to that reproduction or transparency.