Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT - SECT 27A

    (1)     A document purporting to be:

        (a)     a copy of an Act; and

        (b)     printed by the Government Printer,

shall be taken to be a correct copy of the Act until the contrary is proved.

    (2)     In subsection (1), "Act" includes:

        (a)     an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly, and a Northern Territory Ordinance;

        (b)     an Act or Ordinance of a State of the Commonwealth, or of a Territory of the Commonwealth other than the Territory;

        (c)     an Act of the Commonwealth; and

        (d)     an Imperial Act,

and, in relation to an Act or Ordinance within paragraph (b), (c) or (d), "Government Printer" means, as the case may require, the person (however styled) authorized to print Acts or Ordinances of the State or Territory in question, the Commonwealth Government Printer and the Queen's Printer or other person authorized to print Imperial Acts.