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Presumption as to records or property in certain cases
Act: Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010
Section Provisions
ACT VII OF 2010 ACT VII OF 2010 ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ACT, 2010 An Act to provide for prevention of money laundering [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 27th March 2009] No.F.9 (4)/2010-Legis., dated 27-3-2010.--The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on 26th March, 2010, is hereby published for general information: Whereas, it is expedient to provide for prevention of money laundering combating financing of terrorism and forfeiture of property derived from, or involved in, money laundering or financing of terrorism and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; It is hereby enacted as follows:-- 19. Presumption as to records or property in certain cases.--Where any document of public record is found in the possession or control of any person in the course of a survey or a search relating to any predicate offence or where any records have been received from any place outside Pakistan duly authenticated by such authority or person and in such manner as may be prescribed in the course of proceedings under this Act, the Court or the investigating agency as the case may be, shall-- (a) presume, that the signature and every other part of such record which purports to be in the handwriting of any particular person or which the Court may reasonably assume to have been signed, by or to be in the handwriting of, any particular person,, is in that person's hand-writing; and in the case of a record executed or attested, that it was executed or attested by the person by whom it purports to have so executed or attested; and (b) Admit the document in evidence, notwithstanding that it is not duly stamped, if such document is otherwise admissible in evidence.