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HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1981 - SECT 26

26—Certificate by Minister to be evidence

        (1)         In any proceedings for an offence against this Act, a certificate by the Minister stating that a place specified in the certificate is a place—

            (a)         in territorial waters of the State; or

            (b)         in a specified protected zone,

is proof, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of the matters stated in the certificate.

        (2)         An apparently genuine document purporting to be a certificate of the Minister under this section will, in the absence of proof that it is not such a certificate, be accepted as such in any proceedings for an offence against this Act.



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