New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SALE OF GOODS (VIENNA CONVENTION) ACT 1986 - SECT 7

7 Evidence of certain matters

(1) A document purporting to be a notice issued by the Minister and published in the Gazette, or a document purporting to be a notice issued by a Minister of State for the Commonwealth and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, or a document certified by a legal practitioner to be a true copy of such a notice:

(a) declaring that the Convention has entered or will enter into force, with effect from a specified date, in respect of a specified country,

(b) declaring that a specified country has made a declaration under Part IV of the Convention and specifying details of that declaration, including the date the declaration took or will take effect, or

(c) declaring that a specified country has denounced the Convention or Part II or III of the Convention and specifying the date the denunciation took or will take effect,

is evidence of the matters contained in the document.

(2) In this section:
"legal practitioner" means a barrister, solicitor, a barrister and solicitor, or a legal practitioner, of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth or of the High Court of Australia.