WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 491 Evidentiary aids

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 491

491 Evidentiary aids

(1) A certificate purporting to be signed by or for the chief executive or regulator stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—

(a) a stated decision, direction, notice or requirement is a decision, direction, notice or requirement under this Act;

(b) a stated thing is a thing that must or may be included in a register;

(c) that a stated document is a document kept under this Act;

(d) that a stated document is a copy of, or an extract from or part of, a thing mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) ;

(e) that on a stated day—

(i) a stated person was given a stated decision, direction or notice under this Act; or

(ii) a stated direction or requirement under this Act was given to or made of a stated person;

(f) that on a stated day, or during a stated period, a person’s appointment as an authorised officer was, or was not, in force.

(2) A statement in a complaint for an offence against this Act that the matter of the complaint came to the knowledge of the complainant on a stated day is evidence of the day it came to the complainant’s knowledge.