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EVIDENCE ACT 2008 - SECT 180

Proof of identity of convicted persons—affidavits by members of Australian Federal Police

    (1)     This section applies if a member of the Australian Federal Police—

        (a)     makes an affidavit in the form prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section; and

        (b)     states in the affidavit that he or she is a fingerprint expert for the Australian Federal Police.

    (2)     For the purpose of proving before a court the identity of a person alleged to have been convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the affidavit is evidence in a proceeding that the person whose fingerprints are shown on a fingerprint card referred to in the affidavit and marked for identification—

        (a)     is the person referred to in a certificate of conviction, or certified copy of conviction annexed to the affidavit, as having been convicted of an offence; and

        (b)     was convicted of that offence; and

        (c)     was convicted of any other offence of which he or she is stated in the affidavit to have been convicted.



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