If you are in a court case about customs or excise, the court can use a document from another country as evidence. This is allowed even if the document is not normally used as evidence in other court cases. The court can do this for most cases, except for some specific types of crimes, like those mentioned in section 329, section 330, section 370, or section 390. The document can be used to prove a fact that is important in the case.
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In any proceeding under this Act, other than a prosecution for an offence under section 329, 330, 370, or 390, the court may admit in evidence, as proof of any fact in issue, a document made in a country other than New Zealand, whether the document is legally admissible as evidence in other proceedings or not.
