Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsIn this part—
"affidavit" includes statutory declarations.
"business" includes any undertaking.
"machine copy" , in relation to a document, means a copy of the document made
by a machine performing a process—
(a) involving the production of a latent image of the document (not being a latent image on photosensitive material on a transparent base) and the development of that image by chemical means or otherwise; or
(b) that, without the use of photosensitive material, produces a copy of the document simultaneously with the making of the document.
(a) when referred to in connection with the production of a document in answer to legal process issued by a court, the document that would, if this part had not been enacted, be required to be produced in answer to that process; or
(b) when referred to in connection with the admissibility of a document in evidence in a proceeding—(i) a document that would, if this part had not been enacted, be admissible in evidence in that proceeding in lieu of another document where a party to the proceeding failed to produce that other document in response to notice to do so given to the party by another such party; or(ii) any other document that would, if this part had not been enacted, be admissible in evidence in that proceeding.
(a) a developed negative or positive photograph of that document (an
"original photograph" ) made on a transparent base by means of light reflected from, or transmitted through, the document; or
(b) a copy of an original photograph made by the use of photosensitive material (being photosensitive material on a transparent base) placed in surface contact with the original photograph; or
(c) any 1 of a series of copies of an original photograph, the first of the series being made by the use of photosensitive material (being photosensitive material on a transparent base) placed in surface contact with a copy referred to in paragraph (b) of this definition, and each succeeding copy in the series being made, in the same manner, from any preceding copy in the series.