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Defence Force Discipline Act 1982
147Judicial notice of service matters
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147 Judicial notice of service matters
(1) In addition to the matters of which judicial notice may be taken by a court under the rules of evidence referred to in section 146, a court martial or the Defence Force magistrate shall take judicial notice of all matters within the general service knowledge of the tribunal or of its members.
(2) In proceedings before a summary authority, the summary authority must take judicial notice of all matters within the general service knowledge of the summary authority.