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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 155A

Evidence of Commonwealth documents

  (1)   Evidence of a Commonwealth document may be adduced by producing a document that purports to be, or to be a copy of or extract from, the Commonwealth document that is certified to be the Commonwealth document, or to be a true copy or extract, as the case may be, by:

  (a)   a Minister; or

  (b)   a person who might reasonably be supposed to have custody of the Commonwealth document.

  (2)   If such a document is produced, it is presumed, unless evidence that is sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced, that:

  (a)   the document is the Commonwealth document, or the copy of or extract from the Commonwealth document, that it purports to be; and

  (b)   the Minister or person certified the document as being the Commonwealth document or a true copy or extract, as the case requires.

Note :   Section   5 extends the application of this section to proceedings in all Australian courts.


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