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Parliamentary privilege - Other provisions relating to parliamentary privilege - Copies of parliamentary journals as evidence

39: Parliamentary journals as evidence

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"Parliamentary journals are accepted as proof in court"

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You are looking at a proposed law change about copies of parliamentary journals. This change applies to copies of journals from the Legislative Council or House of Representatives. These copies must be treated as evidence in court. You will use these copies as proof of what they say without needing extra evidence. This means courts must accept them as true records of what happened. They do not need to check if they were printed or published correctly.

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Other provisions relating to parliamentary privilege: Copies of parliamentary journals as evidence

39Parliamentary journals as evidence

  1. This section applies to copies of the Journals of the Legislative Council or the House of Representatives of New Zealand that purport to be printed by the Government Printer or published under the authority of the relevant House.

  2. All courts and all other persons acting judicially must admit those copies as evidence of the matters stated in them, without further proof that they were printed or published as described in subsection (1).