Victorian Current Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 2008 - SECT 92

    (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.