Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00472:section:180
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00472
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 180
Character Range: 206395–207558

180  Proof of identity of convicted persons—affidavits by AFP employees or special members of the Australian Federal Police
 (1) This section applies if an AFP employee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979) or a special member of the Australian Federal Police (within the meaning of that Act):
 (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.