New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 287

287 Evidentiary effect of certain transcripts

(1) If a deposition referred to in section 285 or 286 is in the form of a written transcript of matter recorded by means, other than writing, authorised by law for the recording of depositions--

(a) the record so made is taken to be a true record of the matter so deposed, and

(b) the transcript of the record is taken to be a correct transcript of that record,

unless proved to the contrary.

(2) Subsection (1) applies only to--

(a) a transcript made in the form of shorthand notes, being a transcript identified by, and signed in the handwriting of, the person purporting to have made those notes, or

(b) a transcript made by other means (other than writing) authorised by law for the recording of depositions, being a transcript certified in the manner prescribed by the rules.