Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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.