South Australian Consolidated Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES ACT 1981 - SECT 11

11—Evidentiary provisions

In any proceedings for an offence against this Act, an allegation in the complaint—

            (a)         that a period referred to in the complaint is or was a period of emergency;

            (b)         that a service referred to in the complaint was, on a specified date, a proclaimed essential service;

            (c)         that a specified direction was given under this Act—

                  (i)         at a specified time; and

                  (ii)         in a specified manner; and

                  (iii)         to a specified person, or persons of a specified class, or to members of the public generally;

            (d)         that a person named in the complaint was on a specified date entitled to exercise powers referred to in the complaint by virtue of a delegation under this Act,

will be accepted as proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.