New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS ACT 1980 - SECT 78

78 Evidence

(1) Where in any proceedings (whether for an offence against this Act or otherwise) it is proved that on a certain day or during any period a person was the holder of a licence in respect of any class of repair work or a tradesperson’s certificate in respect of any class of repair work, it shall be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the person was carrying on business as a repairer in respect of that class of repair work or was doing repair work of that class, as the case may be, on that day or during that period, as the case may be.

(2) A certificate purporting to be under the hand of a prescribed officer certifying that a person was or was not, on a date specified in the certificate, a holder of a licence in respect of any class of repair work so specified or a tradesperson’s certificate in respect of any class of repair work so specified, as the case may be, is admissible in evidence in any proceedings and is prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein.