Section 180 — Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)

(1) This section applies if an AFP employee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979) or a special member of the Australian Federal Police (within the meaning of that Act):

(a) makes an affidavit in the form prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section; and

(b) states in the affidavit that he or she is a fingerprint expert for the Australian Federal Police.

(2) For the purpose of proving before a court the identity of a person alleged to have been convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the affidavit is evidence in a proceeding that the person whose fingerprints are shown on a fingerprint card referred to in the affidavit and marked for identification:

(a) is the person referred to in a certificate of conviction, or certified copy of conviction annexed to the affidavit, as having been convicted of an offence; and

(b) was convicted of that offence; and

(c) was convicted of any other offence of which he or she is stated in the affidavit to have been convicted.

Related sections

• s 177 — Certificates of expert evidence
• s 178 — Convictions, acquittals and other judicial proceedings
• s 179 — Proof of identity of convicted persons—affidavits by members of State or Territory police forces
• s 181 — Proof of service of statutory notifications, notices, orders and directions
• s 182 — Application of certain sections in relation to Commonwealth records, postal articles sent by Commonwealth agencies and certain Commonwealth documents
• s 183 — Inferences

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