EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 56
EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 56
56 . Certain signatures to be judicially noticed
All courts and all
persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of —
(a) the
official signature of any person who holds or has held the office of
Governor-General, Minister of State, President of the Senate, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Secretary to the Federal Executive Council, Justice
of the High Court, Principal Registrar, Deputy Registrar or District Registrar
of the High Court, President or Deputy President of the Commonwealth Court of
Conciliation and Arbitration, Industrial Registrar or Deputy Industrial
Registrar, or President or Judge or member of any Federal Court, or of the
Inter-State Commission, or any office to which the Governor-General, by order
published in the Gazette , declares this section to apply; and
(b) the
official signature of every person who is for the time being, and of every
person who has at any time been Governor, Minister of the Crown, Judge of the
Supreme Court, Prothonotary, Master, Principal Registrar, Registrar, or Deputy
Registrar, or Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court, Commissioner of Titles,
Registrar of Titles, Deputy Commissioner of Titles or Assistant Registrar of
Titles, the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages,
Government Statist or Assistant or Deputy Government Statist, Judge or
Presiding Magistrate or Registrar or Deputy Registrar of any County Court, or
District, Family or Local Court, or Court of Mines, Warden, Chairman of any
Court of General or Quarter Sessions, Judge of any Court of Bankruptcy or
Insolvency, or Police or stipendiary or other magistrate, or justice of the
peace in any State or part or district of any State, or in any Australasian
colony or part of district of any Australasian colony, and of any person
holding in any State or in any Australasian colony or part or district of any
State or Australasian colony any office corresponding to any of the aforesaid
offices, and of any person holding in any such State or colony any office to
which the Governor may, at any time, by order published in the Gazette ,
declare this section to apply; and
(c) the
seal of every such court or person; and
(d) the
fact that such person holds or has held such office,
if the signature or
seal, or an image of the signature or seal, purports to be attached, appended
or applied to any judicial or official document.
[Section 56 amended: No. 16 of 1956 s. 4; No. 111
of 1978 s. 4; No. 67 of 1979 s. 50; No. 40 of 1998 s. 12(a); No. 6 of 2003 s.
85(1); No. 59 of 2004 s. 89; No. 20 of 2013 s. 65.]
Proof of certain documents