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Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
153Gazettes and other official documents
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153 Gazettes and other official documents
(1) It is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that a document
purporting:
(a) to be any government or official gazette (by whatever name
called) of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State, another
Territory or a foreign country; or
(b) to have been printed by the Government Printer of the
Territory, or by the government or official printer of the
Commonwealth or of a State or another Territory; or
(c) to have been printed by authority of the government or
administration of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State,
another Territory or a foreign country;
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is what it purports to be and was published on the day on which it
purports to have been published.
(2) If:
(a) there is produced to a court:
(i) a copy of any government or official gazette (by
whatever name called) of the Territory, the
Commonwealth, a State, another Territory or a foreign
country; or
(ii) a document that purports to have been printed by the
Government Printer of the Territory, or by the
government or official printer of the Commonwealth or of
a State or another Territory; or
(iii) a document that purports to have been printed by
authority of the government or administration of the
Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another
Territory or a foreign country; and
(b) the doing of an act:
(i) by the Governor-General or by the Governor of a State
or the Administrator of a Territory; or
(ii) by a person authorised or empowered to do the act by
an Australian law or a law of a foreign country;
is notified or published in the copy or document;
it is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the act was duly
done and, if the day on which the act was done appears in the copy
or document, it was done on that day.
Note for section 153
Section 5 of the Commonwealth Act extends the operation of section 153 of the