Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00623:section:81
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00623
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 81
Character Range: 125069–126034

81  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 Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run‑off Cover Support Payment) Act 2010, 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.

Part 3—Information gathering provisions