153Gazettes and other official documents

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; Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 97 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