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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
119Judicial notice of Registrar's, Deputy Registrar's and certain
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119 Judicial notice of Registrar's, Deputy Registrar's and certain
officers' signatures
All courts shall take judicial notice:
(a) of the official signature of a person who holds or has held the
office of Registrar or Deputy Registrar;
(b) of the official signature of an officer having duties in
connection with the registration of vehicles or the licensing of
persons to drive vehicles in a State or another Territory of the
Commonwealth;
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(ba) of, in relation to a vehicle of a kind to which the Road
Transport Charges Laws apply, a certificate in writing under
the hand of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar or an officer
referred to in paragraph (b), that:
(i) a copy, attached to the certificate, of an application for
registration of, for an amendment to the registration of,
or for a permit under section 107B in relation to, a
vehicle under the Act was a true copy of such an
application made by or on behalf of the person specified
in the certificate; or
(ii) on the day specified in the certificate, the vehicle
specified was registered as being of a specified
configuration, or that it was in fact of a specified
configuration;
(c) of a certificate in writing under the hand of the Registrar, the
Deputy Registrar, or an officer referred to in paragraph (b),
that, on any day or during any period:
(i) a person was not licensed or has failed to do something
which under this Act a person may be licensed or
required to do;
(ia) a person was disqualified from holding a licence or a
person's licence to drive a motor vehicle was cancelled,
revoked or suspended;
(ib) a permit was or was not issued in relation to a vehicle,
and, where it was so issued, the configuration specified
in the permit and the name of the person in whose name
the permit was issued;
(ic) a permit was, on a specified date, cancelled or
suspended for a specified period;
(ii) a motor vehicle was not registered or licensed in a
manner in which a motor vehicle may be registered or
licensed under this Act; or
(iii) a motor vehicle was registered or licensed and the name
of the person in whose name the vehicle was registered
or licensed,
and such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the matter
contained in the certificate; and
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(d) of a certificate in writing under the hand of the Registrar or a
Deputy Registrar that:
(i) a document annexed to the certificate is a copy of an
Australian Design Rule known by the name specified in
the certificate;
(ii) a document annexed to the certificate is a copy of a
document referred to in an Australian Design Rule; and
(iii) an Australian Design Rule was in force on a day or
during a period specified in the certificate in respect of a
motor vehicle specified in the certificate,
and such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the matter
contained in the certificate.