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EVIDENCE ACT - SECT 28A

Proof of instruments and executive acts

    (1)     Evidence of an instrument of a legislative or administrative character, or of any of the terms of such an instrument, may be given by the production of:

        (a)     the Gazette purporting to set out the instrument;

        (b)     a document printed by the Government Printer and purporting to be a copy of the instrument; or

        (c)     a document purporting to be certified by a Minister, or by an officer having the custody of the instrument, as being a true copy of the instrument or any of its terms.

    (2)     Where by any law in force in the Territory a person holding public office is authorized or empowered to do any act, production of the Gazette purporting to contain a notification of the act's having been done is evidence that the act has been duly done.

    (3)     No proof shall be required of the handwriting or official position of a person certifying a document as mentioned in subsection (1)(c).



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