CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLICATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 32 Evidentiary provisions

CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLICATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 32

32 Evidentiary provisions

(1) In a proceeding for an offence against this Act, each of the following documents is evidence of the matters stated in it—

(a) a document purporting to be a certificate given by the director or the convenor under the Commonwealth Act , section 25 or 87 and stating either of the following matters—

(i) whether a stated publication has been classified;

(ii) if a stated publication has been classified—the classification given to the publication;

(b) a document purporting to be a certificate given by the director and stating whether a publication is a submittable publication.

(2) In a proceeding for an offence against this Act, it is not necessary to prove the authority of the complainant to institute the proceeding.

(3) In this section—


"convenor" means the convenor of the Classification Review Board established under the Commonwealth Act .