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Bushfires Management Act 2016
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103 Evidence in proceedings
In proceedings for an offence against this Act, a certificate
purporting to be signed by the executive director to the following
effect is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, evidence of the
matter stated in the certificate:
(a) that a specified day was within:
(i) a fire danger period; or
(ii) a fire ban period;
(b) that a specified area of land was, at a specified time, within:
(i) a fire protection zone; or
(ii) a fire management zone; or
(iii) a fire management area; or
(iv) a fire danger area; or
(v) a fire ban area;
(c) that a specified fire was a fire the lighting of which had been
prohibited under section 80(1) or 85(1) on the land on which it
was burning;
(d) that a specified person was, on a specified day, a fire control
officer, fire warden or authorised bushfire volunteer.