SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 240 Documentary evidence

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 240

  (1)   If the signature of any person who:

  (a)   holds or has held the office of:

  (i)   Secretary; or

  (ii)   Director - General of Social Security; or

  (iii)   Director - General of Social Services; or

  (b)   is or has been an officer;

purports to be attached or appended to any official document, the document is to be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts and statements contained in it.

  (2)   A statement in writing signed by a person referred to in subsection   (1) that a person is or was receiving a social security payment under the social security law or the 1947 Act on a certain date at a certain rate is to be received in all courts as prima facie evidence that the person is or was receiving the social security payment on the date, and at the rate, stated.

  (3)   A certificate given by the Secretary stating:

  (a)   that a specified amount was the principal sum at a particular time under a specified financial supplement contract; or

  (b)   that a specified amount was the sum of the amounts repaid, or the sum of the amounts notionally repaid, before a particular time or during a particular period in respect of a specified financial supplement contract; or

  (c)   that a specified amount was the amount, or the total of the amounts, of subsidy paid by the Commonwealth to a specified participating corporation in respect of a specified financial supplement contract in lieu of interest on the principal sum or in lieu of interest on the principal sum in relation to a specified period; or

  (d)   that a specified amount was, at a particular time, the amount outstanding under a specified financial supplement contract; or

  (e)   that a specified amount was, at a particular time, the indexation amount in relation to a specified financial supplement contract; or

  (f)   that the rights, or specified rights, of a specified participating corporation in respect of a specified person under a specified financial supplement contract were transferred by the corporation to the Commonwealth on a specified date; or

  (g)   that, on a specified day, a person had an FS debt or FS debts to the Commonwealth of a specified amount or specified amounts; or

  (h)   that, on a specified day, a notice, to a specified effect, under a provision of Chapter   2B was given to a specified person by the Secretary;

is to be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

  (4)   In any proceeding, a document purporting to be a certificate by the Secretary under subsection   (3) is to be taken, unless the contrary is established, to be such a certificate and to have been duly given.