Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 635

635 Evidence of previous conviction

(1) On the trial of a person charged with an offence alleged to have been committed after a previous conviction, a certificate setting out the substance and effect only, without the formal parts, of the indictment, verdict, and judgment, or of the complaint and conviction, purporting to be signed by the officer having the custody of the records of the court where the accused person was first convicted, or by the officer’s deputy is, upon proof of the identity of the person of the offender, sufficient evidence of the conviction, without proof of the signature or official character of the person who appears to have signed the certificate.

(2) If the previous conviction was a summary conviction, the conviction is presumed not to have been appealed against until the contrary is shown.