Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01009:reg:90
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01009
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 90
Character Range: 90726–91802

90  Certificates as evidence
 (1) In this regulation:
instrument means:
 (a) an authorisation mentioned in paragraph 12(2)(a); or
 (b) a certificate; or
 (c) a permission under regulation 71; or
 (d) the instrument of appointment of a verifying, certifying or approving authority.
 (2) An instrument is evidence of a matter stated in the instrument.
 (3) The instrument may be received in evidence:
 (a) in any court, whether or not the court is exercising federal jurisdiction; and
 (b) in any proceeding before a person who is authorised by a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, or by consent of the parties to the proceeding, to receive and examine evidence.
 (4) Unless the contrary is established:
 (a) the instrument is taken to be issued by the person by whom the instrument purports to be issued; and
 (b) the instrument is taken to be signed by the person by whom the instrument purports to be signed; and
 (c) the person by whom the instrument purports to be signed is taken to be a person authorised under these regulations to sign the instrument.