Whenever any document is produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence, or to be a memorandum of a substance of such evidence, and purporting to be signed by any Judge or Magistrate, or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume—

1. that the document is genuine;
2. that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and
3. that such evidence, memorandum or statement was duly taken.