New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REGISTRAR-GENERAL ACT 1973 - SECT 4

4 Seal of office

(1) The Registrar-General shall have a seal of office bearing an impression of the Arms of the State of New South Wales, and having inscribed in the margin thereof the words “Registrar-General, New South Wales”.

(2) Where the Registrar-General or a Deputy Registrar-General, acting or purporting to act under the authority of any Act, issues, signs or makes any instrument, document or writing, the instrument, document or writing is not invalid by reason of any informality in the manner or time of affixing, impressing, or printing the seal of the Registrar-General thereon, or of the omission to affix, impress or print the seal thereon.

(3) All courts and persons acting judicially:

(a) shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Registrar-General that has been affixed to any instrument or document, and

(b) shall until the contrary is proved presume that the seal was properly affixed.

(4) Subsection (3) applies in relation to any seal authorised for use before the commencement of this Act, as well as to the seal authorised for use by this Act.