NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 90 Certificates as evidence
NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 90
Certificates as evidence(a) an authorisation mentioned in paragraph 12(2) (a); or
(b) a certificate; or
(c) a permission under regulation 71; or
(d) the instrument of appointment of a verifying, certifying or approving authority.
(2) An instrument is evidence of a matter stated in the instrument.
(3) The instrument may be received in evidence:
(a) in any court, whether or not the court is exercising federal jurisdiction; and
(b) in any proceeding before a person who is authorised by a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, or by consent of the parties to the proceeding, to receive and examine evidence.
(4) Unless the contrary is established:
(a) the instrument is taken to be issued by the person by whom the instrument purports to be issued; and
(b) the instrument is taken to be signed by the person by whom the instrument purports to be signed; and
(c) the person by whom the instrument purports to be signed is
taken to be a person authorised under these regulations to sign the
instrument.