The evidentiary rules for official documents are not simply a matter of evidence law.As they involve how ju-dicial organs use the work products of public entities,the evidentiary rules for official documents have an intrinsic relation-ship with the rules of effectiveness of administrative acts,and the judge's free evaluation of evidence and the parties'right to dispute official documents are subject to certain restrictions.China's current evidentiary rules for official documents suf-fer from internal systemic confusion,lack of logic,and excessive reliance on the"fact-finding"approach,and in the ex-ternal system,the current norms are not coordinated with the effectiveness of administrative acts.To solve the above prob-lems,a more detailed distinction should be made on the substantive probative value of official documents in the context of the unity of the legal order,so that the evidentiary rules for official documents match the effectiveness of administrative acts.To systematize the evidentiary rules for official documents,a distinction should also be made between three different types of official documents,with respective norms for determining substantive probative value.
official documentssubstantive probative valueformal probative valuepresumptionfacts not required to be proven
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