Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 17

             (1)  The Registrar shall have an official stamp, the design of which shall be determined by the Minister.

             (2)  The Registrar shall sign, and stamp or cause to be stamped with the stamp referred to in subsection (1), every certified copy or extract issued under subsection 19(3).

             (3)  The Registrar may have a stamp for affixing on documents marks that are facsimiles of his or her signature.

             (4)  Instead of signing his or her name on a document (including a Certificate of Death Abroad and an entry in the Register), or on a copy of, or an extract from, a document, in pursuance of, or for the purposes of, a provision of this Act, the Registrar may stamp the document, copy or extract with, or cause the document, copy or extract to be stamped with, the stamp referred to in subsection (3), and the document, copy or extract shall then be deemed to have been signed by him or her.

             (5)  All courts and all persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the mark of a stamp referred to in this section appearing on a document or a copy of, or an extract from, a document and, in the absence of proof to the contrary, shall presume that it was affixed by proper authority.