Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 2003 - SECT 38

38 Executing documents

(1) The registrar is to have 1 or more seals.

(2) A certificate or other document issued by or for the registrar must be issued with—

(a) the imprint of 1 of the registrar’s seals; and

(b) the signature, or a facsimile of a signature, of the registrar or the registrar’s delegate.

(3) If a document produced in evidence before a court is apparently signed and sealed by or for the registrar, the court must presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the document was properly issued under the registrar’s authority.

(4) In this section—

"court" includes an administrative authority or official.