Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 17

             (1)  A certificate in writing given by an authorized person:

                     (a)  as to the ownership of land, or of an estate or interest in land, specified in the certificate, on a date or during a period so specified; or

                     (b)  as to the existence and ownership, on a date or during a period specified in the certificate, of a right so specified in respect of land so specified;

is, in proceedings under, or purporting to be under, any part of the applied provisions, evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

             (2)  For the purposes of the last preceding subsection:

                     (a)  an authorized person is a person in respect of whom there is in force for the time being a delegation of any power under section 139 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 ; and

                     (b)  a writing purporting to be a certificate referred to in that subsection shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate and to have been duly given.