Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN STATES IMMUNITIES ACT 1985 - SECT 41

                   For the purposes of this Act, a certificate in writing given by the person for the time being performing the functions of the head of a foreign State's diplomatic mission in Australia to the effect that property specified in the certificate, being property:

                     (a)  in which the foreign State or a separate entity of the foreign State has an interest; or

                     (b)  that is in the possession or under the control of the foreign State or of a separate entity of the foreign State;

is or was at a specified time in use for purposes specified in the certificate is admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.