Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BAIL ACT - SECT 47

(1) In any proceedings:

(a) a document purporting to be or to be a copy of a bail undertaking given by an accused person, and to be certified by an appropriate officer to be or to be a copy of the undertaking, is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the giving of the undertaking by the accused person and of its terms;

(b) a document purporting to be or to be a copy of the instrument by which a bail condition was imposed in relation to an accused person, and to be certified by an appropriate officer to be or to be a copy of the instrument, is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the imposing of the condition and of its terms;

(c) a certificate purporting to be signed by an appropriate officer certifying that a specified bail condition:

(i) has not been altered or varied under this Act; or

(ii) has been altered or varied under this Act in a specified manner and has not otherwise been altered or varied under this Act,

is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified; and

(d) a document purporting to be or to be a copy of an acknowledgement under section 27(2)(b), and to be certified by an appropriate officer to be or to be a copy of the acknowledgement, is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the making of the acknowledgement and of its terms.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an appropriate officer is:

(a) in the case of police bail - an authorized member; and

(b) in the case of court bail - an officer of the court having custody of the bail undertaking given by the accused.

(3) In any proceedings:

(a) a certificate purporting to be signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions or a person authorized by him in writing in that behalf certifying that a notice referred to in section 25(3) was given or sent to the accused person, or the legal practitioner representing him, in a specified manner on a specified day is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified; and

(b) a certificate purporting to be signed by a Judge, magistrate, justice, clerk of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, sheriff or deputy sheriff and stating that a specified person did not appear before a specified court, at a specified place, on a specified day at a specified time is admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified.

(4) In any document:

(a) the words "authorized member" after a signature shall be evidence that the person whose signature it purports to be is in fact an authorized member within the meaning of this Act;

(b) the words "appropriate officer" after a signature shall be evidence that the person whose signature it purports to be is in fact an appropriate officer as referred to in this section; and

(c) the words "authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions" after a signature shall be evidence that the person whose signature it purports to be has in fact been authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions as referred to in section 25(3) and this section,

in connection with the matter to which the document relates.