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LAND TITLES ORDINANCE ::(iii) any document, or any microfilm, image record or other record of a document, kept in the Land Registry under section 6 (including any part thereof);
 * (iv) any specified form (including any part thereof);
 * (v) any other document (including any part thereof)—
 * (A) which is filed or deposited in the Land Registry under the provisions of this Ordinance or any other enactment; or
 * (B) which otherwise belongs to the Land Registry; or
 * (vi) any endorsement on the Title Register, the applications register or any document, record or form referred to in subparagraph (iii), (iv) or (v); and
 * (b) bearing a certificate, with the signature or the printed signature of the Registrar, or of any other person authorized by him in that behalf, certifying that the document is a true copy, print or extract,

shall, subject to the Stamp Duty Ordinance (Cap. 117), and to the same extent as the original of the document, be admissible in evidence in any proceedings before any court on its production without further proof and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the court shall presume that—
 * (c) the signature or the printed signature and certification to the document is that of the Registrar or a person authorized by him in that behalf; and
 * (d) the document is a true and correct copy, print or extract.

(2) No solicitor, trustee or other person in a fiduciary position shall be liable in damages for any loss occasioned by the inaccuracy of a document first-mentioned in subsection (1).

(3) Subject to subsection (4), no process for compelling the production of any thing referred to in subsection (1)(a) shall be issued from any court—
 * (a) except with the leave of the court; and
 * (b) unless the process has a statement on it to the effect that it is issued with the leave of the court.

(4) A court shall not grant leave for a process referred to in subsection (3) to be issued if it is satisfied that a document first-mentioned in subsection (1) is sufficient for the purposes of the process.

(5) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the admissibility of any evidence which would be admissible apart from the provisions of this section.