Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00534:section:70
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00534
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 70
Character Range: 263652–264587

70  Evidentiary certificates
 (1) The Chief Executive Medicare may issue a written certificate:
 (a) stating that a person is liable to pay:
 (i) a run‑off cover support payment; or
 (ii) a late payment penalty in relation to a run‑off cover support payment; and
 (b) setting out particulars of the liability.
 (2) In any civil proceedings under, or arising out of, this Act or the medical indemnity payment legislation, a certificate under subsection (1) is prima facie evidence of the matters in the certificate.
 (3) A document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) must, unless the contrary is established, be taken to be such a certificate and to have been properly issued.
 (4) The Chief Executive Medicare may certify that a document is a copy of a certificate issued under subsection (1).
 (5) This section applies to the certified copy as if it were the original.

Subdivision E—Information gathering processes