115Certificates as evidence

115 Certificates as evidence (1) In any proceedings, a certificate of the registrar-general to the effect— (a) that, on a date stated in the certificate, the association named in the certificate was or was not an incorporated association; or (b) that, on a date stated in the certificate, there was no association incorporated under the name stated in the certificate; or (c) that a provision of this Act stated in the certificate— (i) had or had not been complied with at a date or within a period stated in the certificate; or (ii) had been complied with at the date stated in the certificate but not before that date; or (d) that, on a date stated in the certificate, the person named in the certificate was or was not shown by the registrar-general’s records to be the public officer of an incorporated association named in the certificate; or (e) that, on a date stated in the certificate, the address stated in the certificate was the last address of the public officer of the incorporated association named in the certificate of which the registrar-general was notified; or (f) that a copy of the statement of the objects or the rules of an incorporated association named in the certificate, or a copy of a notice stating particulars of any trust relating to the incorporated association named in the certificate, is a true copy of the statement, the rules or the notice, at the date stated in the certificate; is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate. (2) In any proceedings, a certificate of incorporation issued under this Act or the repealed Act in relation to an association is taken to be conclusive evidence that the association was incorporated under the respective Act on the date stated in the certificate as the date of incorporation. (3) In this section— (a) a reference to a copy of a document includes a reference to a print-out of the matters or some of the matters contained in the document and recorded in a computerised database comprising the matters contained in documents issued by or lodged with the registrar-general; and (b) a reference to a document includes a reference to— (i) an application lodged with the registrar-general under this Act; and (ii) if a reproduction or transparency of a document lodged with the registrar-general has been incorporated in a register—the reproduction or transparency.