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Evidence Act 1995
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A document that purports: (a) to be published by the Australian Statistician; and (b) to contain statistics or abstracts compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act 1905; is evidence that those statistics or abstracts were compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under that Act.
Note: Section 5 extends the application of this section to proceedings in all Australian courts.