Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749:section:185c
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 185C
Character Range: 626612–627844

185C  Evidentiary certificates relating to acts by enforcement agencies
 (1) A certifying officer of an enforcement agency may issue a written certificate signed by him or her setting out such facts as he or she considers relevant with respect to:
 (a) anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with the disclosure of information or a document covered by an authorisation in force under a provision of Division 3 or 4 of Part 4‑1; or
 (b) anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with:
 (i) the communication by a person to another person of information, or information contained in a document, covered by such an authorisation; or
 (ii) the making use of such information; or
 (iii) the making of a record of such information; or
 (iv) the custody of a record of such information; or
 (v) the giving in evidence of such information.
 (2) A document purporting to be a certificate issued under subsection (1) by a certifying officer of an enforcement agency and to be signed by him or her:
 (a) is to be received in evidence in an exempt proceeding without further proof; and
 (b) is, in an exempt proceeding, prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the document.