FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1994 NO. 43, 1994 

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1994 NO. 43, 1994 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title  
2. Commencement  
3. Repeal  
4. Proceedings already begun  
5. Hearings already begun  
6. Proceedings in courts of the Australian Capital Territory  

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994 - LONG TITLE

     An Act to make transitional provisions and certain amendments
             relating to the Foreign Evidence Act 1994

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
- SECT 1
Short title

                                             (Assented to 15 March 1994)
  1. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Evidence (Transitional Provisions
and Consequential Amendments) Act 1994.

(Minister's second reading speech made in-
          Senate on 16 December 1993
          House of Representatives on 2 March 1994)

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
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Commencement

  2.(1) Sections 1, 2 and 5 commence on the day on which this Act receives the
Royal Assent.

  (2) Sections 3, 4 and 6 commence on the day on which Parts 2 and 6 of the
Foreign Evidence Act 1994 commence.

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
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Repeal

  3. Parts IIIB and IIIC of the Evidence Act 1905 are repealed.

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
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Proceedings already begun

  4.(1) Parts 2 and 6 of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994 do not apply in
relation to proceedings that began before the commencement of this section.

  (2) A provision of the Evidence Act 1905 that is repealed under section 3 of
this Act continues to apply in relation to such proceedings.

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
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Hearings already begun

  5.(1) Part 3 of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994 does not apply in relation to
proceedings the hearing of which began before the commencement of that Part.

  (2) Part 4 of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994 does not apply in relation to
proceedings the hearing of which began before the commencement of that Part.

  (3) Part 5 of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994 does not apply in relation to
proceedings the hearing of which began before the commencement of that Part.

FOREIGN EVIDENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
1994 No. 43 of 1994
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Proceedings in courts of the Australian Capital Territory

  6. Subsection 3(2) of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994 does not apply in
relation to proceedings before a court of the Australian Capital Territory
that began before the day fixed by Proclamation under that subsection.