Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00823:section:305
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00823
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 305
Character Range: 560188–561320

305  Evidentiary certificates
 (1) A Commonwealth officer who holds such qualifications as are specified in the regulations may issue a certificate, signed by the officer, setting out such facts as he or she considers relevant with respect to:
 (a) his or her qualifications; and
 (b) an examination he or she has made of a device.
 (2) A certificate purporting to be issued under subsection (1) and to be duly signed is, in proceedings under or arising out of this Act or the Customs Act 1901, prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it.
 (3) The ACMA may issue a certificate, signed by a person authorised by the ACMA for the purposes of this subsection, stating that at a specified time, or during a specified period, a specified person was, or was not, the holder of a specified kind of radiocommunications instrument.
 (4) A certificate purporting to be issued under subsection (3) and to be duly signed is, in proceedings under or arising out of this Act, prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it.
 (5) In this section:
radiocommunications instrument means:
 (a) a licence; or
 (b) a permit; or
 (c) a certificate.