EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 65A
EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 65A
If—
(a) the
age of a person is relevant to proceedings before a court; and
(b) a
document that appears to be a certified copy of, or extract from, a register
of births kept under an Australian law, or under the law of the country in
which the person was born, is produced to the court; and
(c) the
name of the person to whom the document relates is the name or a former name
of the person whose age is to be established,
it will be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the
person whose age is to be established is the person named in the document
produced to the court and that the date of his or her birth is the date of
birth shown in that document.