Entry in public record made in performance of duty

An entry in any record, official book or register kept in any Commonwealth country, or at sea, or in any foreign country, stating, for the purpose of being referred to by the public, a fact which may be proved, and made in proper time by any person in the discharge of any duty imposed upon him by the law of the place in which that record, book or register is kept, is admissible in evidence. re-cord made in duty plan.