TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 130 Evidentiary certificates relating to actions by criminal law - enforcement agencies

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 130

  (1)   A certifying officer of a criminal law - enforcement agency may issue a written certificate signed by him or her setting out such facts as he or she considers relevant with respect to:

  (a)   anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with the execution of a stored communications warrant; or

  (b)   anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with:

  (i)   the communication by a person to another person of information obtained by the execution of such a warrant; or

  (ii)   the making use of such information; or

  (iii)   the making of a record of such information; or

  (iv)   the custody of a record of such information; or

  (v)   the giving in evidence of such information.

  (2)   A document purporting to be a certificate issued under this section by a certifying officer of a criminal law - enforcement agency and to be signed by him or her:

  (a)   is to be received in evidence in an exempt proceeding without further proof; and

  (b)   in an exempt proceeding, is prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the document.