39Certificate of Secretary prima facie evidence

#### 39 Certificate of Secretary prima facie evidence 39 Certificate of Secretary prima facie evidence > In any legal proceedings under this Act or the regulations a certificate purporting to be signed by the Secretary or by a person employed in the Ministry of Health authorised generally or specially by the Secretary in that behalf to do so and to certify that any person is or is not a person who holds a licence, permit or authority under this Act or the regulations shall, without proof of the signature or of the official character or authority of the person purporting to have signed the certificate, be prima facie evidence of the fact stated in the certificate. > > **s 39:** Am 1972 No 63, Sch; 1982 No 138, Sch 1; 1996 No 2, Sch 1 \[28\]; 2015 No 58, Sch 3.69 \[4\].