South Australian Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 39

39—Public documents provable by examined or certified copy

        (1)         Whenever any book or other document is of such a public nature as to be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper custody, and no Act exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extract therefrom shall be admissible in evidence,

            (a)         if it is proved to be an examined copy or extract; or

            (b)         it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted.

        (2)         Every such officer is hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying for the same at a reasonable time, upon payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding five cents for every folio of ninety words.