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Evidence (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1995

No. 3 of 1995

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Section
       1. Short title
       2. Commencement

PART 2—REPEALS

       3. Repeals

PART 3—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

       4. Proceedings already begun
       5. Prior operation of notification provisions
       6. Proof of voluminous or complex documents
       7. Notices for the purposes of sections 97 and 98 of the Evidence Act 1995
       8. Requests under section 167 of the Evidence Act 1995
       9. Approval of persons for the purposes of section 171 of the Evidence Act 1995
       10. Requests under section 173 of the Evidence Act 1995

TABLE OF PROVISIONS—continued

Section
       11. Agreements under section 191 of the Evidence Act 1995
       12. Identifications already carried out
       13. Cautioning of persons
       14. Amendments made by this Act

PART 4—CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

       15. Meaning of service by post
       16. Application of Crimes Act and Evidence Act
       17. Identification parades
       18. Identification by means of photographs
       19. Cautioning persons under arrest
       20. Right to remain silent etc. not affected
       21. Oaths and affirmations
       22. Rules of Court
       23. Oaths and affirmations
       24. Oaths and affirmations
       25. Judicial notice of signature of Secretary
       26. Judicial notice of signature of Secretary
       27. Other consequential amendments

SCHEDULE

OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Acts Interpretation Act 1901

Defence Act 1903

Disability Services Act 1986

Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986

Fisheries Management Act 1991

Fishing Industry Research and Development Act 1987

Health Insurance Act 1973

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Grants) Act 1980

Liquid Fuel Emergency Act 1987

National Health Act 1953

Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987

Nursing Homes Assistance Act 1974

States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965

Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

Evidence (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1995

No. 3 of 1995

An Act to repeal provisions of the Evidence Act 1905, to repeal the State and Territorial Laws and Records Recognition Act 1901 and to make transitional provisions and certain amendments consequential upon the enactment of the Evidence Act 1995

[Assented to 23 February 1995]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Evidence (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1995.

Commencement

2.(1) This Part and Parts 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 15 of this Act commences on the day on which section 160 of the Evidence Act 1995 commences.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, subsection 16(1) commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(4) A Proclamation is not to be made under subsection (3) of this section until the law of each State and the law of the Northern Territory have been amended to the effect that the