PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 81

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 81

81 .         Evidentiary provisions

        (1)         The Register shall be received by all courts and tribunals as evidence of all matters required or authorised by this Division to be entered in the Register.

        (2)         The Minister may, on payment of a fee calculated at the prescribed rate, supply copies of or extracts from the Register or of or from any instrument lodged with him under this Division, certified by writing under his hand, and such a copy or extract so certified is admissible in evidence in all courts, tribunals and proceedings without further proof or production of the original.

        (3)         The Minister may, on payment of the prescribed fee, by instrument in writing under his hand, certify that an entry, matter or thing required or permitted by or under this Division to be made or done or not to be made or done has or has not, as the case may be, been made or done and such a certificate is evidence in all courts, tribunals and proceedings of the statements contained in the certificate.

        [Section 81 amended: No. 69 of 1981 s. 34; No. 12 of 1990 s. 64; No. 55 of 2004 s. 917.]