Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 159

                   A document that purports:

                     (a)  to be published by the Australian Statistician; and

                     (b)  to contain statistics or abstracts compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 ;

is evidence that those statistics or abstracts were compiled and analysed by the Australian Statistician under that Act.

Note:          Section 5 extends the application of this section to proceedings in all Australian courts.