EVIDENCE.

No. 43 of 1934.

An Act to amend the Evidence Act 1905.

[Assented to 4th August, 1934.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Evidence Act 1934.

(2.) The Evidence Act 1905 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Evidence Act 1905–1934.

2. After section ten of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Proof of statistics.

“10a.—(1.) The mere production of a document purporting to be published by the Statistician and to contain statistics or abstracts thereof compiled and tabulated by the Statistician pursuant to the Census and Statistics Act 1905–1930 shall in all Courts be evidence that those statistics or abstracts were compiled and tabulated by the Statistician pursuant to that Act.

“(2.) In this section ‘the Statistician’ means the Commonwealth Statistician appointed under section four of the Census and Statistics Act 1905–1930, and includes any person to whom the Statistician has, under section five of that Act, delegated the power to compile, tabulate and publish the statistics collected pursuant to that Act.”.