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EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 67

67 .         Certain documents admissible without proof of signature, seal etc.

                Whenever by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, or of the Parliament of any State or of any Australasian colony, now or hereafter to be in force —

            (a)         any certificate; or

            (b)         any official or public document; or

            (c)         any document or proceeding of any corporation or joint-stock or other company; or

            (d)         any copy of or extract from any document or by-law, or entry in any register or other book, or of or from any other proceeding,

                is admissible in evidence in any legal proceeding in the United Kingdom or in the particular State or colony, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence in all courts and before all persons acting judicially in Western Australia, if it purports to be certified or sealed, or impressed with a stamp, or sealed and signed, or signed alone, or impressed with a stamp and signed, as directed by such Act, without any proof —

                  (i)         of the seal or stamp, where a seal or stamp is necessary; or

                  (ii)         of the signature; or

                  (iii)         of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the same,

                and without any further proof thereof.



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