Magistrates Court (Children's Division) Act 1998
22Evidentiary provisions
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22 Evidentiary provisions
(1) A document required by this Act to be kept by an officer of the Court is admissible in any court as evidence of the matters referred to by the entries in the document.
(2) A document purporting to be a copy of an entry referred to in subsection (1) and purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy by a district registrar is admissible as evidence of that entry under subsection (1) .
(3) A document referred to in subsection (1) or a document purporting to be a copy as referred to in subsection (2) is, until the contrary is shown and without further proof, evidence of the proceedings to which the entry relates and of the regularity of those proceedings.