Commonwealth Numbered Acts

EXTRADITION (COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES) AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 17 of 1985 - SECT 22

22. After section 32 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Evidence of certain matters

"32A. A certificate by the Attorney-General stating that -

   (a)  Australia or another specified country is a party to a specified
        treaty;

   (b)  the treaty entered into force for Australia or that other country, as
        the
case may be, on a specified date; and

   (c)  as at the date of the certificate, the treaty remained in force for
Australia or that other country, is, for the purposes of any proceedings under
this Act, prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.".