South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts45A—Admission of business records in evidence
(1) An apparently
genuine document purporting to be a business record—
(a)
shall be admissible in evidence without further proof; and
(b)
shall be evidence of any fact stated in the record, or any fact that may be
inferred from the record (whether the inference arises wholly from the matter
contained in the record, or from that matter in conjunction with other
evidence).
(2) A document shall
not be admitted in evidence under this section if the court is of the
opinion—
(a) that
the person by whom, or at whose direction, the document was prepared can and
should be called by the party tendering the document to give evidence of the
matters contained in the document; or
(b) that
the evidentiary weight of the document is slight and is outweighed by the
prejudice that might result to any of the parties from the admission of the
document in evidence; or
(c) that
it would be otherwise contrary to the interests of justice to admit the
document in evidence.
(3) For the purpose of
determining the evidentiary weight, if any, of a document admitted in evidence
under this section, consideration shall be given to the source from which the
document is produced, the safeguards (if any) that have been taken to ensure
its accuracy, and any other relevant matters.
(4) In this
section—
"business" means business, occupation, trade or calling and includes the
business of any governmental or local governmental body or instrumentality;
"business record" means—
(a) any
book of account or other document prepared or used in the ordinary course of a
business for the purpose of recording any matter relating to the business; or
(b) any
reproduction of any such record by photographic, photostatic, lithographic or
other like process.