70Evidentiary certificates

#### 70 Evidentiary certificates (1) The Chief Executive Medicare may issue a written certificate: (a) stating that a person is liable to pay: (i) a run‑off cover support payment; or (ii) a late payment penalty in relation to a run‑off cover support payment; and (b) setting out particulars of the liability. (2) In any civil proceedings under, or arising out of, this Act or the medical indemnity payment legislation, a certificate under subsection (1) is prima facie evidence of the matters in the certificate. (3) A document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) must, unless the contrary is established, be taken to be such a certificate and to have been properly issued. (4) The Chief Executive Medicare may certify that a document is a copy of a certificate issued under subsection (1). (5) This section applies to the certified copy as if it were the original.