(1) In determining whether, under the law of a Contracting State, an applicant has rights of custody in respect of a child, a court may, despite anything in sections 37 to 41 of the Evidence Act 1908, take direct notice of—
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a decision or determination of a judicial or administrative authority outside New Zealand may be proved by a duly authenticated copy of the decision or determination; and any document purporting to be such a copy must be treated as a true copy unless the contrary is shown.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a copy is duly authenticated if it purports to bear the seal, or purports to be signed by a Judge or officer, of the authority in question.