Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FAMILY LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 181 of 1987 - SECT 54

54. Section 102 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Proof of birth, parentage, death or marriage

"102. In proceedings under this Act, the court may receive as evidence of the
facts stated in it a document purporting to be either the original or a
certified copy of:

   (a)  a certificate, entry or record of a birth, death or marriage alleged
        to have taken place, whether in Australia or elsewhere; or

   (b)  an entry in a register of parentage information kept under the law of
        the Commonwealth or of a State, Territory or prescribed overseas
        jurisdiction.".