New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 92

92 Exceptions

(1) Section 91 (1) does not prevent the admission or use of evidence of the grant of probate, letters of administration or a similar order of a court to prove--

(a) the death, or date of death, of a person, or

(b) the due execution of a testamentary document.

(2) In a civil proceeding, section 91 (1) does not prevent the admission or use of evidence that a party, or a person through or under whom a party claims, has been convicted of an offence, not being a conviction--

(a) in respect of which a review or appeal (however described) has been instituted but not finally determined, or

(b) that has been quashed or set aside, or

(c) in respect of which a pardon has been given.

(3) The hearsay rule and the opinion rule do not apply to evidence of a kind referred to in this section.