Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 113

113 One affidavit sufficient in certain circumstances

(1) This section applies to and in respect of transparencies, made by using an approved machine, of a series of documents that—

(a) bear or have been given serial numbers in arithmetical order; or

(b) bear or have been marked with the same distinctive identification mark; or

(c) purport from their contents to relate to the same subject matter, to the same person or persons or to a matter between persons;

where the documents are photographed in their proper order on a continuous length of film or, where the documents are marked in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b) , on separate films.

(2) An affidavit made pursuant to this division shall be deemed to be an affidavit in respect of all or any of the transparencies of a series of documents to which this section applies if it is photographed as part of the series and in lieu of identifying or describing each individual document photographed, it states the general nature of the documents in the series and—

(a) the serial numbers of the first and last document in the series; or

(b) the distinctive identification mark; or

(c) the person or persons, or the matter between persons, to which the documents refer;

as the case may require.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this division, a print that purports to be made from a transparency of an affidavit referred to in subsection (2) shall be admissible in evidence in a proceeding as if it were the affidavit from which the transparency was made, if—

(a) it is produced or tendered with a print made from a transparency of a document in the series to which the affidavit relates; and

(b) an affidavit under section 108 relating to both prints is also produced or tendered.