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Public Trustee Act 1978
sec.11DEvidentiary provisions
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### sec.11D Evidentiary provisions
Judicial notice must be taken of the appointment and signature of the public trustee.
Judicial notice must be taken of the imprint of the public trustee’s seal appearing on a document and the document must be presumed to have been properly sealed unless the contrary intention is proved.
In any proceeding, anything done, or omitted to be done, by or purportedly by the public trustee, or someone else for or purportedly for the public trustee, must be taken to have been properly done, or omitted to be done, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
s 11D ins 1994 No. 24 s 3 (1) sch
(sec.11D-ssec.1) Judicial notice must be taken of the appointment and signature of the public trustee.
(sec.11D-ssec.2) Judicial notice must be taken of the imprint of the public trustee’s seal appearing on a document and the document must be presumed to have been properly sealed unless the contrary intention is proved.
(sec.11D-ssec.3) In any proceeding, anything done, or omitted to be done, by or purportedly by the public trustee, or someone else for or purportedly for the public trustee, must be taken to have been properly done, or omitted to be done, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.