200Certificates etc

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.

(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.

(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—

(a) is as admissible in a proceeding as the original document, and

(b) has the same validity in evidence as the original document or the extracted part of the original document.

(4) In a proceeding, a certificate of the Registrar stating that a requirement of this Act specified in the certificate—

(a) had, or had not, been complied with at a date or within a period specified in the certificate, or

(b) had been complied with at a date specified in the certificate but not before that date,

is evidence of the matters specified in the certificate.

s 200: Am 2000 No 93, Sch 1.5 [5].