Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where in a certificate given for the purposes of this Division reference is made to a person by name and that certificate includes a description of the person named by reference to his or her physical characteristics and a court is satisfied that a person before it is a person having that name and answering to the description in the certificate, the certificate shall be deemed to refer to that person, unless the contrary is proved.
(2) A document purporting to be a certificate, request or notification given or made for the purposes of a provision of this Division, and to be signed by an authority or person specified in the document, shall, upon mere production in any proceedings in a court, be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a certificate, request or notification given or made by that authority or person.
(3) Where under a provision of this Division a certificate or
request is given or made by the designated authority of a country, and a
certificate or request purports to be signed by a person described in that
document as the designated authority of that country, that person shall, in
any proceedings in a court, be deemed to be the designated authority of that
country for the purposes of that provision, unless the contrary is proved.