Companion Animals Act 1998
83LCertificates relating to Register
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83L Certificates relating to Register
83L Certificates relating to Register
(1) The Departmental Chief Executive can issue a certificate certifying as to whether or not a particular companion animal is or was registered at a particular time and certifying any registration information for the animal entered on the Register at a particular time.
(2) The certificate is evidence of the matters certified. Information entered on the Register is presumed (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) to be correct.
Note.
Such a certificate can be used as evidence of (for example) the name of the registered owner of a companion animal and the address at which it is ordinarily kept.
s 83L: Ins 2018 No 27, Sch 1 [15].