(1)  Any minute of proceedings at meetings of any council or committee of a council, board of directors, managing or governing body, if signed by any person purporting to be the mayor or chairperson at the meeting at which the proceedings took place or at the next ensuing meeting, is receivable in evidence in all legal proceedings without further proof.

(2)  Until the contrary is proved, in relation to a meeting in respect of the proceedings of which minutes are made –

(a) the meeting is taken to be duly convened and held; and

(b) all the members are taken to be duly qualified; and

(c) any committee is taken to be duly and regularly constituted with power to deal with the matters referred to in the proceedings.

Note: This section does not appear in the Evidence Act 1995 of the Commonwealth.