Evidence Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

1962.] Evidence. [No. 12.

EVIDENCE.

11° Elizabeth II., No. XII.

No. 12 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Evidence Act, 1906-1960.

[Assented to 1st October, 1962.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Evidence and citation.

Act Amendment Act, 1962.

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(2) In this Act the Evidence Act, 1906-1960, is Reprinted Acts

referred to as the principal Act. approved for reprint 13th June, 1956, as amended by

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act Acts Nos. 16 of 1956

may be cited as the Evidence Act, 1906-1962. and 10 of

No. 12.] Evidence. [1962.

S. 79A

added. 2. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section seventy-nine the following section:-

Proof of	79A. Where a document requires attestation
document

requiring	to be valid that document may, in any legal
attestation.
Cf. U.K. 1 &	proceeding, be proved in the manner in which
2 Geo. 6,
Ch. 28, s. 3.	it might be proved if no attesting witness to the document were alive, but this section does not apply to the proof of a will or other testa- mentary document.