Western Australian Current Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 53

53 .         Commonwealth and States etc., and their Acts to be judicially noticed

        (1)         All courts and all persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice —

            (a)         of the Commonwealth and the States and of every Australasian colony, and the extent of their respective territories; and

            (b)         of all Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of the Commonwealth, and of any State, and of any Australasian colony, passed before or after the commencement of this Act.

        (2)         Any document (whether in printed or electronic form) purporting to be a copy of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or of the Commonwealth, or of any State, or of any Australasian colony, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, and purporting to be printed or published by the Government Printer, shall prima facie be deemed to be a correct copy of such Act without any further proof thereof.

                The date which appears on any such copy purporting to be the day on which such Act received the Royal Assent, or was proclaimed to commence, shall be received for all purposes as evidence of the date of such assent, or commencement.

        [Section 53 amended: No. 13 of 2021 s. 58.]