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1The *Evidence Amendment Act 1990* s. 4(2) reads as follows:
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1 The *Evidence Amendment Act 1990* s. 4(2) reads as follows:
(2) Subsection (2a) inserted in section 11 of the principal Act by subsection (1) applies to a certificate given under subsection (2) of that section in respect of evidence given on or after the day on which this section comes into operation.
2 The *Interpretation Act 1918* was repealed by the *Interpretation Act 1984*.
3 The *Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1884* was repealed by the *Defamation Act 2005*.
4 The *Acts Amendment (Video and Audio Links) Act 1998* s. 3 reads as follows:
3. Power to use certain technology
(1) Nothing in the amended provisions is to be taken as preventing the use by a court or other person acting judicially of a video link or audio link (as those terms are defined in section 121 of the *Evidence Act 1906*) in any case where the court or person thinks fit and where the use of the video link or audio link would not be contrary to law.
(2) In subsection (1) —
amended provisions means —
(a) *The Criminal Code*;
(b) the *Evidence Act 1906*;
(c) the *Justices Act 1902*; and
(d) the *Sentencing Act 1995*,
as amended by this Act.
5 The amendment in the *Land Information Authority Act 2006* s. 133 to the Fifth Schedule is not included because the entry it sought to amend had been amended by the *Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006* s. 37.
6 The *Evidence Act Amendment Act 1974* is not included as it was repealed before it came into operation by the *Evidence Amendment Act 1987* s. 10*.*