Evidence Act 2011

This section applies if a member of the Australian Federal Police—

makes an affidavit in the form prescribed by regulation; and

states in the affidavit that the member is a fingerprint expert for the Australian Federal Police.

For the purpose of proving before a court the identity of a person alleged to have been convicted of an offence against a Commonwealth law, the affidavit is evidence in a proceeding that the person whose fingerprints are shown on a fingerprint card mentioned in the affidavit and marked for identification—

is the person mentioned in a certificate of conviction, or certified copy of conviction annexed to the affidavit, as having been convicted of an offence; and

was convicted of the offence; and

was convicted of any other offence of which the person is stated in the affidavit to have been convicted.