Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 248

             (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.