NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SECT 41 Register of Permit and Authority Holders to be evidence of certain matters

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SECT 41

  (1)   In a proceeding, the production of the Register, or of a document certified by the Director to be a true copy of the Register, is prima facie evidence:

  (a)   that a person whose name has been entered in the Register as a person to whom a relevant permit has been granted became the holder of that permit on the day entered in the Register as the day on which the grant of that permit took effect and:

  (i)   if there is entered in the Register the day on which the revocation, expiration or cessation of that permit took effect -- continued to be the holder of that permit until the day so entered; or

  (ii)   in any other case--is the holder of that permit and has been the holder of that permit since that first - mentioned day;

  (b)   that a person is not the holder, and has never been the holder, of a relevant permit, if his or her name has not been entered in the Register as a person to whom a relevant permit has been granted; and

  (c)   that a person whose name has been entered in the Register as a person to whom a relevant permit of a particular kind has been granted was not the holder of a relevant permit of that kind on any day that is not included in:

  (i)   the relevant period applicable to that permit; or

  (ii)   if the name of the person has been entered in the Register as a person to whom 2 or more relevant permits of that kind have been granted--any of the relevant periods applicable to those permits.

  (2)   The production in a proceeding of a document purporting to be a copy of the Register and to be certified by the Director to be a true copy is prima facie evidence that it is such a copy and that it has been so certified.

  (3)   In this section:

"relevant permit" means a permit or an authority under section   18.

"relevant period" , in relation to a relevant permit, means the period from and including the day entered in the Register as the day on which the permit took effect to and including the day immediately preceding the day entered in the Register as the day on which the revocation, expiration or cessation of that permit took effect.