Evidence Act Amendment Act 1978 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

EVIDENCE.

No. 33 of 1978.

AN ACT to - amend the Evidence Act, 1906-1976.

[Assented to 21st August, 1978.]

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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Evidence Shor t title e

Act Amendment Act, 1978. and citation.

(2) In this Act the Evidence Act, 1906-1976 is

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Evidence Act, 1906-1978.

No. 33.] Evidence. [1978.

Section 46A

added. 2. The principal Act is amended by adding

immediately after section 46 a section as follows:

Evidence of

sunrise and

46A. Where in any proceedings it is material to prove the time of sunrise or sunset, or both, in the State, in any area of the State, or at any place in the State on a particular day and such a time has, under the authority of the Perth Astronomical Observatory or such other body as the Governor by proclamation nominates in lieu of the Perth Astronomical Observatory, been specified by a notice in the Government Gazette, the production of the Government Gazette containing the notice shall be evidence that the time of sunrise or sunset, or both, in the State, in that area, or in that place, as the case may be, on that day was the time so specified. .

sunset.