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Act index » Chapter 4 - Proof Introductory Note » Part 4.3 - Facilitation of proof » Division 2 - Matters of official record
(1)It is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that a document purporting— is what it purports to be and was published on the day on which it purports to have been published.
(a)to be any government or official gazette (by whatever name called) of this State, the Commonwealth, another State, a Territory or a foreign country; or
(b)to have been printed by the Government Printer of this State, or by the government or official printer of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or
(c)to have been printed by authority of the government or administration of this State, the Commonwealth, another State, a Territory or a foreign country—
(2)If— it is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the act was duly done and, if the day on which the act was done appears in the copy or document, it was done on that day.
(a)there is produced to a court—
(i)a copy of any government or official gazette (by whatever name called) of this State, the Commonwealth, another State, a Territory or a foreign country; or
(ii)a document that purports to have been printed by the Government Printer of this State, or by the government or official printer of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or
(iii)a document that purports to have been printed by authority of the government or administration of this State, the Commonwealth, another State, a Territory or a foreign country; and
(b)the doing of an act— is notified or published in the copy or document—
(i)by the Governor-General or by the Governor of a State or the Administrator of a Territory; or
(ii)by a person authorised or empowered to do the act by an Australian law or a law of a foreign country—
1Section 5 of the Commonwealth Act extends the operation of section 153 of the Commonwealth Act to proceedings in all Australian courts. See also section 143 of the Evidence (Miscellaneous
2Provisions) Act 1958 (Printing or using documents falsely purporting to be printed by government printer an indictable offence).