(1)  If any used ballot paper or other document purporting to have been taken from a parcel forwarded to the Commission under section 149 has been certified by the Commission as having been taken from that parcel, the certification by the Commission is admissible in evidence in proceedings before any court that the ballot paper or other document was so taken and that, in the case of a ballot paper, it was deposited in a ballot box or otherwise received in accordance with this Act and, if another document, that it was used at the election to which the certification relates.

(2)  A used ballot paper certified in accordance with subsection (1) is evidence of a vote recorded at the election concerned.