Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 629

629. The following documents are admissible and shall, until the contrary is proved, be evid ence 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 180 CAP. 12.] CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE 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; Cap. 234. (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. Acts and registers of foreign notaries.