(1)  This section applies if a member of the Australian Federal Police –

(a) makes an affidavit in the prescribed form; and

(b) states in the affidavit that he or she is a fingerprint expert for the Australian Federal Police.

(2)  For the purpose of proving before a court the identity of a person alleged to have been convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the affidavit is evidence in a proceeding that the person whose fingerprints are shown on a fingerprint card referred to in the affidavit and marked for identification –

(a) is the person referred to in a certificate of conviction, or certified copy of conviction annexed to the affidavit, as having been convicted of an offence; and

(b) was convicted of that offence; and

(c) was convicted of any other offence of which he or she is stated in the affidavit to have been convicted.