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Road Transport (General) Act 1999
72AEvidentiary certificate—use etc of road or road related
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72A Evidentiary certificate—use etc of road or road related
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(1) In a proceeding under the road transport legislation, a certificate that
appears to be signed by or on behalf of an owner of land, or a
representative of the owner, and states any of the following matters,
is evidence of the matter:
(a) that an area of the land is or is not a road;
(b) that an area of the land is, or is not, open to or used by the public
for driving, riding or parking vehicles;
(c) that a person was, on a stated date, the owner of the land, or a
representative of the owner.
(2) A court must accept a certificate mentioned in subsection (1) as proof
of the matters stated in it if there is no evidence to the contrary.
owner, of land, includes the lessee or occupier of the land.