Requirements of transcripts and certificates

The transcripts and certificates of the original authentic documents shall have full faith and credit only:- 1. When these documents are official, the transcripts and certificates being issued by competent public official according to laws and regulations applicable; 2. When those documents are extra-official the transcripts or certificates being issued by public official, by whom, or with whose intervention, the originals were drawn or by whoever has succeeded him and in the mode prescribed at that time when they were issued. § Sole paragraph – The authentic copies shall constitute, proof only if they have been obtained with notice to the other side against whom they are presented or upon the party producing document from which they were extracted as soon as this is sought in terms of article 2500; and the certified copies of the certificates or of the transcripts shall constitute proof to the extent they are not contrary to the transcripts or certificates which are exhibited as being from the originals.