FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 53 Evidentiary provisions
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 53
Evidentiary provisions(1) The Register is prima facie evidence of any particulars registered in it.
(2) If the Register is wholly or partly kept by use of a computer, a document issued by AFMA producing in writing all or any of the particulars comprising the Register, or that part of it, as the case may be, is admissible in any proceedings as prima facie evidence of those particulars.
(3) A signed copy of, or signed extract from, the Register is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.
(4) A signed copy of, or signed extract from, an instrument evidencing a dealing registered under this Part is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.
(5) AFMA, upon application made in the form approved by AFMA, must supply a person with a document mentioned in subsection (2) or a signed copy of, or a signed extract from, an entry in the Register or an instrument evidencing a dealing registered under this Part.
"signed" means signed by a person on behalf of AFMA.