AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 80 Copies of, or extracts from, certain books

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 80

  (1)   A copy of, or an extract from, a book relating to:

  (a)   affairs of a body corporate; or

  (aa)   an audit - related matter referred to in subparagraph   30A(2)(a)(i); or

  (ab)   a matter referred to in paragraph   30B(2)(a); or

  (b)   a matter referred to in any of paragraphs 31(1)(g) to (m), inclusive; or

  (c)   a matter referred to in paragraph   32A(c) or (d);

is admissible in evidence in a proceeding as if the copy were the original book, or the extract were the relevant part of the original book, as the case may be, whether or not the copy or extract was made under section   37.

  (2)   A copy of, or an extract from, a book is not admissible in evidence under subsection   (1) unless it is proved that the copy or extract is a true copy of the book, or of the relevant part of the book, as the case may be.

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   (2), a person who has compared:

  (a)   a copy of a book with the book; or

  (b)   an extract from a book with the relevant part of the book;

may give evidence, either orally or by an affidavit or statutory declaration, that the copy or extract is a true copy of the book or relevant part, as the case may be.