(b) any such licence or exemption
held by a specified person was or was not subject to a specified condition, or
(c) any such licence that had been suspended or cancelled has not been
delivered to the Minister or Transport for NSW, or
(d) any such licence was
or was not suspended or cancelled, or
(e) a person named in the certificate
is or was disqualified from holding a marine safety licence and the
circumstances of any such disqualification, or
(f) a vessel named in the
certificate was or was not registered under this Act,
is admissible in any
legal proceedings and is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
(2) In any legal proceedings under the marine legislation, proof is not
required (until evidence is given to the contrary) of the following--
(h) the particular or general appointment of a member of
staff of Transport for NSW to take proceedings against a person for an offence
against the marine legislation,
(i) the particular or general appointment of
a person to recover any amount payable to the Minister or Transport for NSW,
(j) the fact that the defendant is, or at any relevant time was, the owner or
occupier of, or in possession, control or charge of, any land or other thing
in question,
(k) the fact that any land in question is, or at any relevant
time was, vested in the Crown, any Minister or any statutory body,
(l) the
times of sunrise and sunset on any day and the relevant location, as specified
for that day on the website of Geoscience Australia.
(3) In any legal
proceedings under the marine legislation, evidence that--
(a) a message or
signal was transmitted, given or made by an authorised officer or a delegate
of the Minister in the course of his or her duties, and
(b) the vessel to
which the message or signal was transmitted, given or made was so located as
to be able to receive the message or signal,
is evidence that the message or
signal was received by the master of the vessel concerned.