Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1971 - SECT 47

    (1)     Evidence of a statute, proclamation, treaty or act of state of an overseas country may be given in a proceeding by the production of—

        (a)     a book or pamphlet purporting to be published by the authority of the government of that country or by the government or official printer of that country, or in a book or publication that appears to the court to be a reliable source of information, containing the statute, proclamation, treaty or act of state; or

        (b)     a book or pamphlet that is proved to the satisfaction of the court to be admissible in the courts in that country as evidence of the statutes, proclamations, treaties or acts of state of that country contained in that book; or

        (c)     a copy of the statute, proclamation, treaty or act of state that is proved to be an examined copy; or

        (d)     a document that purports to be a copy of the statute, proclamation, treaty or act of state if there is endorsed on or annexed to the copy so produced a certificate by the person having custody of the original that the copy is a true copy of the document of which it purports to be a copy.