Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Every register of
a vessel kept under any of the Acts of the Imperial Parliament or of any
British possession relating to the registry of any British or colonial
vessels, may be proved in any court or before any person or persons acting
judicially either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy
thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the
person having the charge of the original, and which person is hereby required
to furnish such certified copy to any person applying at a reasonable time for
the same, upon payment of the sum of 25 cents.
(2) Every such
register or such copy of a register, and also every certificate of registry
granted under any of the Acts of the Imperial Parliament or of any British
possession relating to the registry of any British or colonial vessels, and
purporting to be signed as required by law, shall be received in evidence in
any court, or before any person acting judicially, as prima facie proof of all
the matters contained or recited in such register when the register or such
copy thereof as aforesaid is produced, and of all the matters contained or
recited in or endorsed on such certificate of registry when the said
certificate is produced.
[Section 68 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 4.]