EVIDENCE.

No. 48 of 1956.

An Act to amend the Evidence Act 1905–1950.

[Assented to 30th June, 1956.]

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

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)     This Act may be cited as the Evidence Act 1956.

(2.)   The Evidence Act 1905–1950 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 1905–1956.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the date fixed under sub-section (2.) of section two of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1956.

Definition.

3.  Section two of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in the definition of “Courts”, after the word “Arbitration,”, the words “the Commonwealth Industrial Court,”.

Certain signatures, &c. to be judicially noticed.

4.  Section four of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a), after the word “Arbitration,”, the words “President, Deputy President or other member of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission,”; and

(b) by inserting in paragraph (b), after the word “Court”, the words “or of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission”.