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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999
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### 9 Execution of documents
> > (1) The Registrar may issue a certificate or other document under the Registrar's signature and seal or a facsimile of the Registrar's signature and seal produced by stamp, machine imprint or some other method authorised by regulation.
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> > (2) If a document produced before a court or an administrative authority or official is apparently under –
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> > > > (a) the Registrar's signature and seal; or
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> > > > (b) a facsimile of the Registrar's signature and seal produced by stamp, machine imprint or some other method authorised by regulation –
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> > the court, authority or official must presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the document was properly issued under the Registrar's authority.
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> > (3) Judicial notice is to be taken of the seal.