Registration of Deeds Act 1856

That on production of an affidavit, to be sworn before any justice of the peace, setting forth that the original of any such enrolled instrument has been lost, or cannot be found after due and diligent search and inquiry, or has been wholly or partially effaced or destroyed, and that the party by whom or on whose behalf such affidavit is tendered claims interest under such instrument, the Registrar shall issue to the party delivering such affidavit a full copy, certified by him to be correct, of the instrument referred to by such affidavit; and every copy so certified shall be received in any court of justice within the said State as conclusive evidence of the contents of the instrument so lost, effaced or destroyed, proof having been first made to the satisfaction of such court that such instrument is lost and cannot be found, and of the signature of the Registrar to such certificate.