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#### 200 Certificates etc
200 Certificates etc
> > (1) In a proceeding, a document that appears to be a certificate of registration, certificate of incorporation or other certificate, or an authority, issued by the Registrar under this Act, or a copy of any such document appearing to be certified as such by the Registrar, is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate, authority or copy.
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> > (2) Judicial notice must be taken of the imprint of the Registrar’s seal appearing on a document and the document must be presumed to have been properly sealed until the contrary is proved.
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> > (3) A copy of, or extract from, a document lodged with, created by or otherwise held by the Registrar, and certified to be a true copy or extract under the Registrar’s seal—
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> > > (a) is as admissible in a proceeding as the original document, and
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> > > (b) has the same validity in evidence as the original document or the extracted part of the original document.
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> > (4) In a proceeding, a certificate of the Registrar stating that a requirement of this Act specified in the certificate—
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> > > (a) had, or had not, been complied with at a date or within a period specified in the certificate, or
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> > > (b) had been complied with at a date specified in the certificate but not before that date,
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> > is evidence of the matters specified in the certificate.
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> **s 200:** Am 2000 No 93, Sch 1.5 \[5\].