Evidence Act 1963 (Cth)

EVIDENCE.

No. 28 of 1963.

An Act to amend the Evidence Act 1905-1956.

[Assented to 30th May, 1963.]

[Date of commencement, 27th June, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Evidence Act 1963.

(2.) The Evidence Act 1905-1956, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Evidence Act 1905-1963.

 

Proof of proceedings in Parliament.

2. Section seven of the Evidence Act 1905-1956 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(2.) A document that purports—

(a)to be a copy of a motion, resolution or proposed law moved in, agreed to by or introduced in a House of the Parliament, or a particular committee of a House of the Parliament, on a date specified in the document; and

(b)to be printed by the Government Printer,

is admissible in all Courts as evidence that a motion, resolution or proposed law in the terms set out in the document was moved in, agreed to by or introduced in that House, or that committee of that House, as the case may be, and that it was moved, agreed to or introduced on the date specified in the document.”.