Western Australian Numbered Acts

COURTS AND TRIBUNALS (ELECTRONIC PROCESSES FACILITATION) ACT 2013 (NO. 20 OF 2013) - SECT 69

69 .         Section 73BA inserted

                After section 73B insert:

73BA.         Authenticated copies of certain public documents etc. admissible without further proof

        (1)         In this section —

        authenticated copy , in relation to a document or official record to which this section applies, means a copy of the document or official record that is authenticated in accordance with any regulations or rules of court as being produced from an electronic version of the document or official record.

        (2)         This section applies to —

            (a)         a document that is at any time filed in a court and is recorded in electronic form; and

            (b)         the official record of any proceedings in a court, if the official record is kept in electronic form.

        (3)         An authenticated copy of a document or official record to which this section applies is admissible in evidence without further proof as if it were the document or official record of which it is an authenticated copy.

        (4)         If the registrar, clerk or proper officer of a court is served with legal process to produce, in a court or before a person acting judicially, a document or official record to which this section applies, it is sufficient answer to that process if the person to whom it is addressed provides or makes available to the registrar, clerk or proper officer of the court in which the document or official record is to be produced or the person before whom the document or official record is to be produced an authenticated copy of the document or official record.