248Judicial notice of Commission’s seal and members’ signatures

248 Judicial notice of Commission’s seal and members’ signatures

(1) A court shall take judicial notice of the Commission’s common seal affixed to a document and, unless the contrary is established, shall presume that it was duly affixed. (2) A court shall take judicial notice of: (a) the official signature of a person who holds or has held, or is acting or has acted in, the office of member, Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson; and (b) the fact that the person holds or has held, or is acting or has acted in, that office; if a signature purporting to be the person’s signature appears on an official document. (3) In this section: (a) court includes a tribunal; and (b) a reference, in relation to a tribunal, to taking judicial notice is a reference to taking the same notice as would be taken by a court.