242Evidence of publication of instruments on website

242 Evidence of publication of instruments on website

(1)  The Secretary is to cause a record to be kept of the publication on the Department website of the following:

(a) an emergency order;

(b) a control order;

(c) a general biosecurity direction;

(d) a group permit;

(e) any other notice, order, declaration, instrument or document that may be made or given under this Act by publication on the Department website.

(2)  A record to be kept under subsection (1) in respect of an instrument referred to in that subsection is to include –

(a) the date of publication of the instrument; and

(b) the web address where the instrument was so published; and

(c) the wording of the instrument as published.

(3)  In any legal proceedings, a certificate issued by the Secretary stating that records kept by the Secretary under this section indicate that an instrument referred to in subsection (1) was published on the Department website on a particular date –

(a) is admissible in those legal proceedings; and

(b) is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

(4)  For the purposes of this section, a document purporting to be a certificate issued under this section is, unless the contrary is proved, taken to be such a certificate.