Public documents relating to court processes
Evidence of a public document that is a judgment, act or other process of an Australian court or a foreign court, or that is a document lodged with an Australian court or a foreign court, may be adduced by producing a document that purports to be a copy of the public document and that— (a) is proved to be an examined copy, or (b) purports to be sealed with the seal of that court, or (c) purports to be signed by a judge, magistrate, registrar or other proper officer of that court. Note. Section 5 of the Commonwealth Act extends the operation of section 157 of the Commonwealth Act to proceedings in all Australian courts.
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