New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 14

14 Evidence

(1) In any proceedings arising under this Act or the regulations, a certificate purporting to be signed by a person appointed as an analyst by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette for the purposes of this Act, and:

(a) certifying that he or she has examined any stock or carcass, or any specimens obtained from any stock or carcass, or any sample of soil, pasture or fodder or any article submitted to him or her by the Minister, the Director-General, or an inspector, and

(b) certifying the result of the examination and any conclusions arrived at by him or her as a result of that examination,

shall, without proof of the signature or appointment of the person signing the certificate, be admissible and be evidence of the matters certified in the certificate.

(2) In any prosecution for an offence under this Act or the regulations in respect of stock, proof that a detention notice was given under this Act shall be evidence that the notice had not been revoked at the time of the alleged offence in so far as it related to the stock.

(3) A copy of a notice given to a person on a particular day in the manner prescribed by this Act that:

(a) purports to be a detention notice, and

(b) bears a signature purporting to be the signature of the Minister, an inspector or a delegate of the Minister,

is, without proof of the signature or of the official character of the signatory, evidence that the notice was given to that person on that day by the Minister, an inspector or a delegate of the Minister, as the case may be.