Cap. 12 Art. 629Acts requiring proof of authenticity.

The following documents are admissible and shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of their contents, provided their authenticity be proved:

(a) the acts and registers of any establishment, or public body, authorized or recognized by law or by the Government;

(b) the parochial acts and registers relative to births, marriages and deaths, and the dispositions made according to law in the presence of a parish priest;

(c) the acts and registers of notaries public in Malta;

(d) the books of traders kept according to law, only with regard to any agreement or other transaction of a commercial nature;

(e) the books of public brokers kept according to law, with regard to anything which may have taken place between contracting parties in commercial matters;

(f) the documents mentioned in article 134(3), in article 176(2) and in article 190(6) of the Merchant Shipping

Act, as provided in the said provisions.