24BEvidence of transmission of information or document

#### 24B Evidence of transmission of information or document (1) In this section: > print‑out means a copy of information or a document produced by a data processing device to which the information or document was transmitted by means of another data processing device or other data processing devices. (2) In any proceedings in a court for an offence against this Act, a print‑out is prima facie evidence: (a) that information or a document in the terms set out in the print‑out was transmitted on the day, and at the time, specified in the print‑out; and (b) that the information or document was transmitted by the person specified in the print‑out as the person who transmitted the information or document; and (c) that the information or document was transmitted to the person specified in the print‑out as the person to whom the information or document was transmitted. (3) A paper certified, in writing, by an officer of the Department to have been produced by a specified data processing device in an office of the Department is to be taken to be a print‑out for the purposes of this section unless the contrary is proved.