EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 34A

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 34A

34A—Proof of commission of offence

Where a person has been convicted of an offence or found by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction to have committed an offence and the commission of the offence is in issue or relevant to an issue in a civil proceeding, the conviction or finding is evidence of the commission of the offence and admissible in the proceeding against the person or a party claiming through or under the person.