Evidence Act Amendment Act 1964 (WA)

No. 11.] Evidence. [1964.

EVIDENCE.

13° Elizabeth IL, No. XI.

No. 11 of 1964.

AN ACT to amend the Evidence Act, 1906-1963.

[Assented to 2nd October, 1964.]

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, 1964.

Vol. 10 the

Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Evidence Act, 1906-1963, is
Acts.

Approved	referred to as the principal Act.
for reprint 13th June, 1956 and

further

amended hi

Acts Nos.

16 of 1956,

10 of 1960,

12 of 1962 ana

54 of 1963.

1964.] Evidence. [No. 11.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Evidence Act, 1906-1964.

2.    Section three of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding, immediately after the interpretation, "Person acting judicially", the following interpre- tation

"Photograph" means a durable facsimile of an original obtained by any photographic, photostatic or similar process; .

3.    The principal Act is amended by adding, after 2a65A.

section sixty-five, the following section—

65A. (1) A photograph that is certified by	Certain
photographs

an officer of the Library Board of Western	may be
admissible
Australia, as being a true reproduction of, or of	in evidence,
without
part of, any book or other printed matter or of	proof.
any document, in the custody and control of that Board, is admissible in evidence, to the same extent that the book or other printed matter or the original document would, if produced, be admissible.
(2) In this section, "officer of the Library Board of Western Australia" means an officer appointed by that Board under the provisions of section six of the Library Board of Western Australia Act, 1951; and judicial notice shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken of the official signature of every such officer. .