Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FOREIGN EVIDENCE ACT 1994 No. 59 of 1994 - SECT 38

38. If a foreign public document is not subject to a requirement of
legalisation, an Australian court, or a person performing a function or
exercising a power under an Australian law, must not require a certificate
issued under the Convention to be placed on or annexed to the foreign public
document in order to certify:

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

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

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