EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 73 Exception: reputation as to relationships and age
EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 73
Exception: reputation as to relationships and age(1) The hearsay rule does not apply to evidence of reputation concerning:
(a) whether a person was, at a particular time or at any time, a married person; or
(b) whether 2 people cohabiting at a particular time were married to each other at that time; or
(d) family history or a family relationship.
(2) In a criminal proceeding, subsection ( 1) does not apply to evidence adduced by a defendant unless:
(a) it tends to contradict evidence of a kind referred to in subsection ( 1) that has been admitted; or
(b) the defendant has given reasonable notice in writing to each other party of the defendant's intention to adduce the evidence.
(3) In a criminal proceeding, subsection ( 1) does not
apply to evidence adduced by the prosecutor unless it tends to contradict
evidence of a kind referred to in subsection ( 1) that has been
admitted.