EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 65A

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 65A

65A .         Certified photographs from library admissible

        (1)         A photograph that is certified by an officer of the Library Board of Western Australia, as being a true reproduction of, or of part of, any book or other printed matter or of any document, in the custody and control of that board, is admissible in evidence, to the same extent that the book or other printed matter or the original document would, if produced, be admissible.

        (2)         In this section, officer of the Library Board of Western Australia means an officer appointed by that board under the provisions of section 6 of the Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951 ; and judicial notice shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken of the official signature of every such officer.

        [Section 65A inserted: No. 11 of 1964 s. 3.]