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NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 90 Certificates as evidence

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 90

Certificates as evidence

  (1)   In this regulation:

"instrument" means:

  (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.