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Foreign Evidence Amendment Act 2010
No. 55, 2010
An Act to amend the Foreign Evidence Act 1994, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendments Part 1—Amendments Foreign Evidence Act 1994 Part 2—Application and transitional provisions
Foreign Evidence Amendment Act 2010 No. 55, 2010
An Act to amend the Foreign Evidence Act 1994, and for related purposes
[Assented to 3 June 2010]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreign Evidence Amendment Act 2010.
2 Commencement This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Part 1—Amendments
Foreign Evidence Act 1994
1 Subsection 3(1) Insert: business has a meaning affected by clause 1 of Part 2 of the Dictionary in the Evidence Act 1995.
2 Subsection 3(1) Insert: business record means a document that: (a) is or forms part of the records belonging to or kept by a person, body or organisation in the course of, or for the purposes of, a business; or (b) at any time was or formed part of such a record.
3 Subsection 3(1) Insert: proceeds of crime law means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or the Proceeds of Crime Act 1987.
4 Subsection 3(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of related civil proceeding) Omit "the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or the Proceeds of Crime Act 1987", substitute "a proceeds of crime law".
5 Paragraph 20(1)(c) Omit "the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in relation to a designated offence", substitute "a proceeds of crime law".
6 At the end of subsection 20(2) Add: ; or (c) a proceeding under a law that is a corresponding law within the meaning of a proceeds of crime law.
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