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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 180

Proof of identity of convicted persons--affidavits by AFP employees or special members of the Australian Federal Police

  (1)   This section applies if an AFP employee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 ) or a special member of the Australian Federal Police (within the meaning of that Act):

  (a)   makes an affidavit in the form prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section; and

  (b)   states in the affidavit that he or she is a fingerprint expert for the Australian Federal Police.

  (2)   For the purpose of proving before a court the identity of a person alleged to have been convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the affidavit is evidence in a proceeding that the person whose fingerprints are shown on a fingerprint card referred to in the affidavit and marked for identification:

  (a)   is the person referred to in a certificate of conviction, or certified copy of conviction annexed to the affidavit, as having been convicted of an offence; and

  (b)   was convicted of that offence; and

  (c)   was convicted of any other offence of which he or she is stated in the affidavit to have been convicted.


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