51Evidentiary provision

51 Evidentiary provision

(1)  [Section 51 Renumbered by No. 30 of 2019, s. 7, Applied:02 Dec 2019] [Section 51 Substituted by No. 50 of 2010, s. 34, Applied:21 Dec 2010] In any proceedings for an offence against this Act –

(a) an averment in a complaint that a specified person was the registered operator of a motor vehicle or trailer at a specified time is evidence of that fact; and

(b) an averment in a complaint that a specified person was the registered owner of a vessel at a specified time is evidence of that fact.

(2)  [Section 51 Subsection (2) inserted by No. 30 of 2019, s. 7, Applied:02 Dec 2019] If in any proceeding for an offence against this Act an authorised officer gives his or her assessment of a quantity of litter deposited in a place or receptacle, that assessment, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is taken to be evidence of the quantity of litter deposited.