Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958 - SECT 81

Effect of judicial or official notice

81. Effect of judicial or official notice

If a court or person acting judicially takes judicial or official notice,
under section 80, of a seal or signature attached or appended to a document,
the court or person must presume-

   (a)  that the seal or signature was properly attached or appended at the
        time and place (if any) purporting to be the time and place at which
        it was so attached or appended; and

   (b)  that there was jurisdiction or authority to sign or seal the document
        at that time and place; and

   (c)  that the document is what, on its construction, it purports to be; and

   (d)  that the document is a valid and subsisting document.



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