Proof of outcome of civil trial

(1) Where a person subject to military law has been tried before a civil court (whether at the time of the trial he was so subject or not), a certificate signed by an officer of the court or a senior justice of the peace and stating all or any of the following matters, (a) that the said person has been tried before the court for an offence specified in the certificate; 101 (b) the result of the trial; (c) what judgment or order was given or made by the court, shall for the purposes of this Act be evidence of the matters stated in the certificate. (2) A document purporting to be a certificate under this section and signed by a Judge or Registrar of the Supreme Court or the magistrate or clerk of the inferior court, shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to be such a certificate.