EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 157 Public documents relating to court processes

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 157

157 Public documents relating to court processes

Evidence of a public document that is a judgment, act or other process of an Australian court or a foreign court, or that is a document lodged with an Australian court or a foreign court, may be adduced by producing a document that purports to be a copy of the public document and that--

(a) is proved to be an examined copy, or

(b) purports to be sealed with the seal of that court, or

(c) purports to be signed by a judge, magistrate, registrar or other proper officer of that court.

Note : Section 5 of the Commonwealth Act extends the operation of section 157 of the Commonwealth Act to proceedings in all Australian courts.