Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN EVIDENCE ACT 1994 - SECT 39

    This Part   does not prevent an Australian court, or a person exercising a function or power under an Australian law, requiring or accepting as evidence of:

  (a)   the authenticity of the signature on a foreign public document; or

  (b)   the capacity in which the person signing a foreign public document has acted; or

  (c)   where appropriate, the identity of the seal or stamp that a foreign public document bears;

a lesser formality than a certificate, issued under the Convention, placed on or annexed to the foreign public document.