Office copy of declaration to be prima facie evidence

In any legal proceeding whatever as well civil as criminal, the production of a copy of such declaration as is aforesaid, attested by the seal of some Court empowered by this Act to have the custody of such declarations, [or, in the case of the editor, a copy of the newspaper containing his name printed on it as editor,] shall be held (unless the contrary be proved) to be sufficient evidence, as against the person whose name [or place of residence] is subscribed to such declaration [or printed on such newspaper] as the case may be, that the said person was printer or publisher, or printer and publisher or (as the case may be) editor, [of every portion of every such newspaper, whereof the title is the same as the title of the newspaper mentioned in such declaration (according to the words of the declaration) or of such portion of such issue of the newspaper as is produced.].