105QEvidentiary provisions

105Q Evidentiary provisions (1) This section applies to a document purporting to be given by the Secretary or a delegate of the Secretary certifying as to whether an application in respect of a specified historical homosexual conviction was approved or refused. (2) The document is admissible in evidence in any proceedings and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of the matters stated in the document. (3) The document must be presumed in any proceedings, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have been given by the Secretary or a person who was, at that time, a delegate of the Secretary, as the case requires. S. 105R inserted by No. 81/2014 s. 3.