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AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 248 Judicial notice of ASIC's seal and members' signatures

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 248

Judicial notice of ASIC's seal and members' signatures

  (1)   A court must take judicial notice of ASIC's common seal affixed to a document and, unless the contrary is established, must presume that it was duly affixed.

  (2)   A court must take judicial notice of:

  (a)   the official signature of a person who holds or has held, or is acting or has acted in, the office of member, Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson; and

  (b)   the fact that the person holds or has held, or is acting or has acted in, that office;

if a signature purporting to be the person's signature appears on an official document.

  (3)   In this section:

  (a)   court includes a tribunal; and

  (b)   a reference, in relation to a tribunal, to taking judicial notice is a reference to taking the same notice as would be taken by a court.