Evidence (Reproductions) Amendment Act 1969 (NSW)

(2 ) The Evidence (Reproductions) Act, 1967, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Evidence (Repro­ ductions) Act, 1967-1969.

2. The Evidence (Reproductions) Act, 1967, is

amended—

(a)	by omitting from the matter relating to Part II in section one the word " P U B L I C " and by inserting
in lieu thereof the word " O F F I C I A L " ;
(b)	by inserting after the word "declaration" in the definition of "Affidavit" in section two the words "where the making of an affidavit is not authorised by law";
(c)	by omitting from the heading to Part II the word

" P U B L I C " and by inserting in lieu thereof the word

" O F F I C I A L " ;

(d) ( i) by inserting next after subsection one of
section three the following new subsections :—

(1A) In a notification published for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section, the Minister shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, authorised to describe an official by designating the office that he holds or in which he acts and where, in such a notification, an official is so des­ cribed—

(ii)
(a)	a person who held or acted in the designated office before publication of the notification shall be deemed to have been, while he held or acted in the designated office, an approved person;
(b)	that official shall cease to be an approved person—

(i)   if he ceases to hold the designated office; or

(ii)   if the notification is revoked in so far as it relates to the designated office,

whichever first occurs; and

(c) a person who succeeds to or acts in the designated office while the notification remains unrevoked in so far as it relates to that office shall be an approved person—

(i)   while he holds or acts in that office; or

(ii)    until the notification is sooner revoked in so far as it relates to the designated office,

whichever first occurs.

(1B) A person shall not fail or cease to be an approved person by reason only of a mis­ description, or an abbreviated description, of a designated office referred to in subsection (1A) of this section by virtue of which he would, but for the misdescription or abbrevi­ ated description, be an approved person, where the misdescription or abbreviation does not materially affect identification of that person.

( l c ) The Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, revoke wholly or in part a notification published for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section.

(ii)   by inserting next after subsection three of the same section the following new subsection :—

( 3 A ) For the purposes of this section and without prejudice to any other form of custody or control, an approved person shall be deemed

to

to have custody or control of a document at the time a transparency of the document was made if—

(a) he has custody or control of the transparency; and

(b) the transparency—

(i)   incorporates a transparency of a certificate purporting to have been signed by an approved person to the effect that the transparency was made as a permanent record of a docu­ ment in the custody or under the control of the person who signed the certificate; or

(ii)   is one of a series of trans­ parencies that incorporates, as part of the series, a trans­ parency of such a certificate relating to the transparencies in the series.

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