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Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 148/175)
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certificate states that a requirement of this Act specified in the certificate:
 (i) had or had not been complied with at a date or within a period specified in the certificate; or
 (ii) had been complied with at a date specified in the certificate but not before that date;
then in any proceeding, the certificate is to be received as prima facie evidence of matters specified in the certificate.
 (3) If:
 (a) the Registrar gives a certificate; and
 (b) the certificate states that, during a period specified in the certificate, a particular Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation was registered, or taken to be registered, under this Act;
then, in any proceedings, the certificate is to be received as prima facie evidence that, during that period, that corporation was registered under this Act.

Certificates issued are prima facie evidence
 (4) A certificate given by the Registrar stating that an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation has been registered under this Act is prima facie evidence that:
 (a) all requirements of this Act for its registration have been complied with; and
 (b) the corporation was duly registered as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation under this Act on the date specified in the certificate.

Writing prepared by the Registrar
 (5) If:
 (a) a writing purports to have been prepared by the Registrar; and
 (b) the writing sets out information that purports to relate to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and
 (c) the information relating to the corporation was derived from information obtained by the Registrar in the administration of this Act; and
 (d) the information was obtained by the Registrar using a computer;
then the writing is prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the writing. In other words, the writing is proof of such a matter in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
 (6) The writing referred to in subsection (5) need not bear a certificate or signature in order to be taken to purport to have been prepared by the Registrar.
 (7) Nothing in this section limits, or is limited by, any other provision of this Part.

424‑10  Registrar's certificate that person was a director etc.
  The Registrar may certify that a person was a director, secretary or contact person of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation at a particular time or during a particular period. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a certificate is proof of the matters stated in it.

Chapter 10—Regulation and enforcement

Part 10‑1—Introduction

Division 434—Introduction

434‑1  What this Chapter is about

      This Chapter deals with the regulation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations and enforcement.
      Part 10‑2 of this Chapter deals with the regulation of