Evidence Act 1929

The provisions of section 66 and 66A shall, as far as applicable, extend to every attestation, verification, acknowledgment, or signature in relation to any document required, authorised, or permitted by or under any statute or by custom or otherwise to be attested, verified, acknowledged, or signed, and to the doing of all notarial acts as if such provisions had been re-enacted in this section, excluding words relating to the administration of oaths or affirmations and the taking of affidavits and substituting therefor words relating to attestation, verification, acknowledgment, or signature, as the case may be.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 66 of this Act as affected by subsection (1) of this section, judicial and official notice may be taken of the signature or seal of a person who, in connection with any of the matters to which those provisions so extend, appears to have signed that signature or affixed that seal while acting in the capacity of a notary public under the law for the time being in force in any country state or territory that is declared by proclamation to be a place within the Commonwealth of Nations to which this subsection applies, whether or not his authority for so acting has been verified in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of section 66 as so extended.

A proclamation referred to in subsection (1a) of this section may be made, and may be varied or cancelled by subsequent proclamation, as the Governor thinks fit.

Notarial act includes any act, matter, or thing which in South Australia or elsewhere a notary public can attest or verify or otherwise do by or under any Act of Parliament or custom or otherwise for the purpose of being used in the State.

The provisions of this section apply to documents required, authorised, or permitted by or under the Real