Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 19

19 .         Evidence of non-access

                In any proceedings including proceedings pending at the commencement of the Evidence Act Amendment Act 1956 ¹ , either party to a marriage may give evidence proving or tending to prove that the parties to the marriage did not have sexual relations with each other at any particular time notwithstanding that such evidence would show or tend to show that any child born to the wife during the marriage was illegitimate.

        [Section 19 inserted by No. 16 of 1956 s. 2.]

Sexual assault communications privilege

        [Heading inserted by No. 46 of 2004 s. 10.]