Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:6:p147
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 147/175)
Character Range: 543258–545969

otherwise disposed of; or
 (f) any other document specified in the regulations.

421‑5  Requests and certification of copy or extract etc.
 (1) If:
 (a) a person makes, under paragraph 421‑1(1)(c) or (1B)(c), a requirement that relates to a document or certificate; and
 (b) the Registrar keeps, by means of a computer, a record of information set out in the document or certificate; and
 (c) in meeting that requirement, the Registrar gives a writing or document that sets out what purports to be the contents of:
 (i) the whole of the document or certificate; or
 (ii) a part of the document or certificate;
then, for the purposes of paragraph 421‑1(1)(c) or (1B)(c), the Registrar is taken to have given:
 (d) if subparagraph (c)(i) applies—a copy of the document or certificate; or
 (e) if subparagraph (c)(ii) applies—an extract from the document or certificate setting out that part of it.

Certification by Registrar
 (2) If:
 (a) the requirement referred to in paragraph (1)(a) includes a requirement that the copy or extract be certified; and
 (b) in meeting that requirement, the Registrar gives a writing or document as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c);
then:
 (c) the Registrar may certify that the writing or document sets out the contents of the whole or part of the document or certificate, as the case requires; and
 (d) the writing or document is, in a proceeding in a court, admissible as prima facie evidence of the information contained in it.
 (3) A certification under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.

Division 424—Validity and use of information etc. obtained from a register

424‑1  Validity of copy or extract
  A copy or an extract derived from a document lodged with the Registrar, and certified by the Registrar, is, in any proceeding, admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document.

424‑5  Use in court proceedings etc. of documents issued by Registrar
 (1) If:
 (a) the Registrar gives a certificate; and
 (b) the certificate states that, at a date or during a period specified in the certificate, no Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation was registered under this Act by a name specified in the certificate;
then, in any proceeding, the certificate is to be received as prima facie evidence that at that date or during that period, as the case may be, no Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation was registered by that name under this Act.
 (2) If:
 (a) the Registrar gives a certificate; and
 (b) the 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