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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 240

Documentary evidence
(1)
If the signature of any person who:

(a)
holds or has held the office of:

(i)
Secretary; or
(ii)
Director-General of Social Security; or
(iii)
Director-General of Social Services; or
(b)
is or has been an officer;

purports to be attached or appended to any official document, the document is to be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts and statements contained in it.

(2)
A statement in writing signed by a person referred to in subsection (1) that a person is or was receiving a social security payment under the social security law or the 1947 Act on a certain date at a certain rate is to be received in all courts as prima facie evidence that the person is or was receiving the social security payment on the date, and at the rate, stated.



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