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159 Official statistics
A document that purports—
S. 159(a) amended by No. 44/2014 s. 33(Sch. item 12).
(a) to be published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics; and
(b) to contain statistics or abstracts compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 of the Commonwealth—
is evidence that those statistics or abstracts were compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under that Act.
Section 5 of the Commonwealth Act extends the operation of section 159 of the Commonwealth Act to proceedings in all Australian courts.
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