New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DRIVING INSTRUCTORS ACT 1992 - SECT 46

46 Evidence as to Authority’s records

(1) A certificate purporting to be signed by an authorised officer and to certify that on any date or during any period specified in the certificate the particulars set out in the certificate as to any of the matters referred to in section 45 did or did not appear on or from the Authority’s records is, in all courts and on all occasions, evidence of the particulars certified by the certificate.

(2) In particular, a certificate purporting to be signed by an authorised officer and to certify that on any date or during any period specified in the certificate:

(a) a specified person was or was not the holder of a licence, or

(b) a licence held by a specified person was or was not subject to a specified condition, or

(c) a specified person was or was not subject to a specified prohibition order, or

(d) a specified notice or document was served under this Act on a specified person,

is admissible in evidence in any legal proceedings and is evidence of the particulars certified by the certificate.

(3) This section applies without the necessity for proof of the signature or of the official character of the person purporting to have signed the certificate and without the necessity for the production of any record or document on which the certificate is founded.