16Certificates about ownership of land

16 Certificates about ownership of land

(1) In proceedings under an applied law (or purporting to be under an applied law), a certificate in writing given by an authorised person about any of the following matters relating to land is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate: (a) the ownership of the land, or of an estate or interest in the land, on a date or during a period specified in the certificate; (b) the existence and ownership of a right in respect of the land, on a date or during a period specified in the certificate. (2) A document that purports to be a certificate referred to in subsection (1) is taken to be such a certificate, and to have been duly given, unless the contrary is proved. (3) In this section:

authorised person means a person who is a delegate, in respect of any power or function, under section 139 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989.