Commonwealth Numbered Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 No. 2 of 1995 - SECT 186

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 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. Note: The NSW Act has no equivalent provision
        for section 186.