South Australian Consolidated Acts

RADIATION PROTECTION AND CONTROL ACT 1982 - SECT 49

49—Evidentiary provisions

        (1)         In proceedings for an offence against this Act, an allegation in the complaint—

            (a)         that a person named holds or held at a specified time a specified office; or

            (b)         that a person named was or was not at a specified time the holder of a specified authority; or

            (c)         that a specified substance was or was not at a specified time a radioactive substance of a specified class; or

            (d)         that specified apparatus was or was not at a specified time radiation apparatus of a specified class,

is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, taken to be proved.

        (2)         In proceedings for an offence against this Act, a condition of an authority or the terms of a direction or other notice under this Act may be proved by production of an apparently genuine document purporting to be a copy of the condition, direction, or other notice certified by the Minister or an officer authorised under this Act to impose the condition or give the direction or notice.