Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PORT AUTHORITIES ACT 1999 - SECT 47

47 .         Assumptions that may be made

                The assumptions that a person is, because of section 45 or 46, entitled to make are — 

            (a)         that, at all relevant times, this Act has been complied with;

            (b)         that a person who is held out by a port authority to be a director, the CEO, an executive officer, a member of staff or an agent of a particular kind — 

                  (i)         has been properly appointed; and

                  (ii)         has authority to perform the functions customarily performed by a director, the CEO, an executive officer, a member of staff or an agent of that kind, as the case may require;

            (c)         that a member of staff or agent of a port authority who has authority to issue a document on behalf of the port authority has authority to warrant that the document is genuine;

            (d)         that a member of staff or agent of a port authority who has authority to issue a certified copy of a document on behalf of the port authority has authority to warrant that the copy is a true copy;

            (e)         that a document has been properly sealed by a port authority if — 

                  (i)         it bears what appears to be an imprint of the port authority’s seal; and

                  (ii)         the sealing of the document appears to comply with section 134;

                and

            (f)         that the directors, CEO, members of staff and agents of a port authority have properly performed their duties to the port authority.