Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1971 - SECT 18

    (1)     This section applies to a document (other than a will or a codicil to a will)—

        (a)     to the validity of which attestation is required; and

        (b)     that purports to have been executed outside Australia.

    (2)     If—

        (a)     there is endorsed on, or annexed to, a document to which this section applies a declaration by the person by whom it purports to have been attested that the document was duly executed and attested as it purports to have been executed and attested; and

        (b)     the declaration referred to in paragraph (a) purports to have been made before, and attested by, a person who is an Australian or British diplomatic or consular officer in the country in which the document purports to have been executed and attested;

the signature of the person by whom the document purports to have been attested shall be deemed, for section 16 (2), to be the signature of the person whose signature it purports to be, the signature of the person before whom the declaration is made shall be deemed to be the signature of the person whose signature it purports to be and evidence that the signature of either of those persons is the person's signature and that the person before whom the declaration is made is an Australian or British consular officer in the country is not, for that subsection, required in a proceeding.