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Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999
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### 67 Evidentiary certificates
> > (1) A certificate signed by the Registrar certifying that a person was or was not the holder of a driver licence or an ancillary certificate under this Act on a specified date is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the fact so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of that fact.
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> > (2) A certificate signed by the Registrar certifying that a vehicle was or was not registered under this Act on a specified date is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the fact so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of that fact.
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> > (2A) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2A) amended by No. 71 of 2001, s. 22, Applied:01 Jan 2002\]*](/view/html/inforce/2002-01-01/act-2001-071#GS22@Hpa@EN) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2A) inserted by No. 22 of 2001, s. 7, Applied:01 Nov 2001\]*](/view/html/inforce/2001-11-01/act-2001-022#GS7@EN) A certificate signed by the Registrar or the Commission certifying that a person, vehicle or combination was or was not exempt from a requirement of the regulations on a specified date or during a specified period is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the fact so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of that fact.
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> > (2B) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2B) amended by No. 71 of 2001, s. 22, Applied:01 Jan 2002\]*](/view/html/inforce/2002-01-01/act-2001-071#GS22@Hpb@EN) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2B) inserted by No. 22 of 2001, s. 7, Applied:01 Nov 2001\]*](/view/html/inforce/2001-11-01/act-2001-022#GS7@EN) A certificate signed by the Registrar or the Commission setting out the conditions on which a person, vehicle or combination was exempt from a requirement of the regulations on a specified date or during a specified period is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the conditions so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of those conditions.
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> > (2C) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2C) inserted by No. 21 of 2008, s. 4, Applied:26 Jun 2008\]*](/view/html/inforce/2008-06-26/act-2008-021#GS4@EN) A certificate signed by the Commission certifying that a speed-limit sign, within the meaning of the *Road Rules*, was displaying a specified speed limit at a specified time and place is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of those matters so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of those matters.
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> > (2D) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (2D) inserted by No. 27 of 2022, s. 12, Applied:23 Jun 2023\]*](/view/html/inforce/2023-06-23/act-2022-027#GS12@EN) A certificate signed by the Commission, or a senior police officer, certifying that a specified police officer, or person, was authorised at a specified time to install or operate, or install and operate, photographic detection devices is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the fact so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of that fact.
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> > (3) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (3) amended by No. 71 of 2001, s. 22, Applied:01 Jan 2002\]*](/view/html/inforce/2002-01-01/act-2001-071#GS22@Hpc@EN) A certificate signed by the Registrar or the Commission certifying an entry in a register kept under this Act is evidence in legal proceedings of facts recorded in the entry and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of those facts.
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> > (4) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (4) amended by No. 71 of 2001, s. 22, Applied:01 Jan 2002\]*](/view/html/inforce/2002-01-01/act-2001-071#GS22@Hpd@EN) A certificate signed by the Registrar or the Commission certifying any other matter that appears in a register kept under this Act, or can be deduced or calculated from information recorded in such a register, is evidence in legal proceedings of the matter so certified and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as proof of that matter.
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> > (5) A document that is, under a corresponding law, admissible in evidence in legal proceedings in the jurisdiction of the corresponding law is admissible in legal proceedings in Tasmania in the same way as in that other jurisdiction and has the same evidentiary value as it would have in that other jurisdiction.
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> > (6) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (6) inserted by No. 10 of 2008, s. 10, Applied:25 Aug 2008\]*](/view/html/inforce/2008-08-25/act-2008-010#GS10@EN) [*\[Section 67 Subsection (6) omitted by No. 33 of 2017, s. 10, Applied:01 Jan 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-01-01/act-2017-033#GS10@EN) . . . . . . . .