Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEVELOPMENT ALLOWANCE AUTHORITY AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 129 of 1992 - SECT 37

37. After section 122 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Certified copies of documents

"122A.(1) The DAA may certify that a document is a copy of a document
('original document') issued by the DAA under this Act.

"(2) Subject to subsection (3), a document purporting to be a copy certified
under subsection (1) must be received in all courts and tribunals in
proceedings arising out of a law of the Commonwealth as evidence as if it were
the original document.

"(3) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a document if:

   (a)  in the case of proceedings for an offence-evidence is adduced that the
        document is not a true copy; or

   (b)  in any other case-it is proved that the document is not a true copy.".