Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In any proceeding
for an offence against this Act in relation to a dog —
(a) an
averment on the process that at a particular time a person was a person liable
for the control of the dog or was the owner or the registered owner of the
dog, or that a person was the occupier of any premises where the dog was
ordinarily kept or ordinarily permitted to live, or that the dog was not
registered or that the dog was of a particular breed is evidence of that fact;
and
(b) the
onus of proving that at a particular time the dog was registered or was under
the age of 3 months lies on the person making that assertion.
(2) In any
proceedings, whether civil or penal, a registration certificate under
section 16(6), or a copy of an entry in a register certified by a
registration officer, shall, without proof of the signature of the person
appearing to have signed the same or that he is a registration officer, be
evidence of the matters relevant to the proceedings set out in that
registration certificate or certified copy.
[Section 45 inserted by No. 23 of 1987
s. 36.]