EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 79B
EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 79B
79B . Terms used
In this section and in
sections 79C, 79D, 79E, 79F and 79G —
business means any business, occupation, trade or
calling and includes the business of any governmental body or instrumentality
and of any local government;
business record means a book of account or other
document prepared or used in the ordinary course of a business for the purpose
of recording any matter relating to the business;
derived means derived, by the use of a computer or
otherwise, by calculation, comparison, selection, sorting, consolidation or by
accounting, statistical or logical procedures;
document means any record of information and
includes, in addition to a document in writing —
(a) any
book, map, plan, graph or drawing; and
(b) any
photograph; and
(c) any
disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data (not
being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid
of some other device) of being reproduced therefrom; and
(d) any
film, negative, disc, tape or other device in which one or more visual images
are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other
device) of being reproduced therefrom;
proceedings includes arbitrations and references
and court shall be construed accordingly;
qualified person , in relation to a statement,
means a person who —
(a) had,
at the time of making of the statement, or may reasonably be supposed to have
had at that time, personal knowledge of the matters dealt with by the
statement; or
(b)
where the statement is not admissible in evidence unless made by an expert on
the subject of the statement, was at the time of making of the statement such
an expert;
statement includes any representation of fact or
opinion whether made in words or otherwise.
[Section 79B inserted: No. 66 of 1987 s. 5;
amended: No. 71 of 2000 s. 14.]