EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 56

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 56

56—Evidence produced by processes, machines and other devices

        (1)         This section applies to a document or thing—

            (a)         that is produced wholly or partly by a device or process; and

            (b)         that is tendered by a party to proceedings who asserts that, in producing the document or thing, the device or process has produced a particular outcome.

        (2)         If a device or process is one that, or is of a kind that, if properly used, will ordinarily produce that outcome, it will be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that, in producing the document or thing on the occasion in question, the device or process produced that outcome.

Example—

It would not be necessary to call evidence to prove that a photocopier normally produced complete copies of documents and that it was working properly when it was used to photocopy a particular document.