EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 186 Swearing of affidavits before justices of the peace, notaries public and lawyers

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 186

  (1)   Affidavits for use in:

  (a)   an Australian court (other than a court of a Territory) in proceedings involving the exercise of federal jurisdiction; or

  (b)   a court of a Territory in proceedings involving the exercise of jurisdiction conferred by an Act of the Parliament;

may be sworn before any justice of the peace, notary public or Australian lawyer without the issue of any commission for taking affidavits.

  (2)   In this section:

"proceedings" includes proceedings that:

  (a)   relate to bail; or

  (b)   are interlocutory proceedings or proceedings of a similar kind; or

  (c)   are heard in chambers; or

  (d)   relate to sentencing.