Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EXPORT CONTROL ACT 1982 - SECT 24B

             (1)  In this section:

"print-out" means a copy of information or a document produced by a data processing device to which the information or document was transmitted by means of another data processing device or other data processing devices.

             (2)  In any proceedings in a court for an offence against this Act, a print-out is prima facie evidence:

                     (a)  that information or a document in the terms set out in the print-out was transmitted on the day, and at the time, specified in the print-out; and

                     (b)  that the information or document was transmitted by the person specified in the print-out as the person who transmitted the information or document; and

                     (c)  that the information or document was transmitted to the person specified in the print-out as the person to whom the information or document was transmitted.

             (3)  A paper certified, in writing, by an officer of the Department to have been produced by a specified data processing device in an office of the Department is to be taken to be a print-out for the purposes of this section unless the contrary is proved.