131Evidentiary certificates

131 Evidentiary certificates

(1) In any proceeding for an offence against this Act or the regulations, a certificate signed by the Secretary stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—

(a) a stated document is one of the following things made, given or issued under this Act or the regulations—

(i) an appointment or a decision;

(ii) a notice, direction or requirement;

(iii) an authority;

(iv) a record or an extract from a record;

(v) the register or an extract from the register;

(b) a stated document is a copy of a thing referred to in paragraph (a);

(c) on a stated day, or during a stated period, a stated person was or was not the holder of an authority;

(d) on a stated day, or during a stated period, an authority—

(i) was or was not in force; or

(ii) was or was not subject to a stated condition;

(e) on a stated day, or during a stated period, an authority was suspended;

(f) on a stated day an authority was cancelled, varied, transferred or surrendered;

(g) on a stated day, or during a stated period, an appointment as an authorised officer or a radiation analyst was, or was not, in force for a stated person;

(h) on a stated day, a stated person was given a stated notice or direction under this Act;

(i) on a stated day, a stated requirement was made of a stated person;

(j) a stated amount is payable under this Act by a stated person and has not been paid.

(2) A certificate of examination and analysis signed by a radiation analyst stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matters—

(a) the analyst's qualifications;

(b) the analyst took, or received from a stated person, a thing or sample;

(c) a thing or sample was examined, analysed, measured or tested at a stated place on a stated day or during a stated period;

(d) the methodology used to examine, analyse, measure or test a thing or sample;

(e) the results of the examination, analysis, measurement or test;

(f) the type, activity concentration or activity of a radionuclide present that is, or was, in a thing or a sample of, or from, a thing;

(g) the type, and energy spectrum, of radiation emission, and the rate of radiation emission, from a radiation source, at a stated place on stated day or during a stated period;

(h) the amount of radiation to which a person has, or may have, been exposed to or received at a stated place on a stated day or during a stated period.