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CENSUS AND STATISTICS REGULATION 2016 - REG 16

Evidentiary certificates

  (1)   The Statistician may give a certificate that:

  (a)   a document attached to the certificate is a true copy of a notice directing a person specified in the certificate to:

  (i)   fill up and supply a form in accordance with instructions in, or accompanying, the form under subsection   10(4) of the Act; or

  (ii)   answer specified questions under subsection   11(2) of the Act; and

  (b)   in the case of a notice under subsection   10(4) of the Act:

  (i)   a form attached to the certificate is a true copy of the form that accompanied that notice; and

  (ii)   if instructions accompanied the form referred to in subparagraph   (i), a document attached to the certificate is a true copy of those instructions.

  (2)   The Statistician may give a certificate that a document attached to the certificate is a true copy of an undertaking of the kind referred to in paragraph   13(2)(c) of the Act by a person specified in the certificate.

  (3)   In proceedings for an offence against the Act, a certificate given under this section is prima facie evidence of the facts specified in the certificate.

  (4)   For the purposes of this section, a document purporting to be a certificate given under this section is taken to be such a certificate, unless the contrary is proved.

 



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