New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NSW TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN ACT 2009 - SECT 122

122 Evidentiary provisions

(1) A certificate signed or purporting to be signed by the Chief Executive Officer or a person authorised in writing by the Chief Executive Officer and stating that--

(a) the NSW Trustee is, or the NSW Trustee and any other persons are, the administrators of an estate of a deceased person and the basis and date on which the NSW Trustee and any other persons became authorised to administer the estate of the person, or

(b) the NSW Trustee has, or the NSW Trustee and any other persons have, been granted probate or letters of administration of an estate of a deceased person on a specified date,

and the name, residence and occupation of the deceased person, is, despite any Act or other law to the contrary, admissible in any legal proceedings and is evidence of the death of the deceased person and of any of the matters stated in the certificate and of the authority of the NSW Trustee to act as administrator or executor.

(2) A certificate signed or purporting to be signed by the Chief Executive Officer or a person authorised in writing by the Chief Executive Officer and stating that, on a specified date or during a specified period, the estate of a specified person was or was not subject to management under this Act is admissible in any legal proceedings and is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.