Queensland Consolidated Acts

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND COMMISSIONERS FOR DECLARATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 39

39 Evidentiary provisions

(1) In any proceedings, a certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar stating that a person named in the certificate—

(a) was, or was not, on a date or during a specified period—

(i) registered under this Act or under the repealed Act as holding a specified office; or

(ii) issued with a specified seal or specified registered number; or

(iii) prohibited under this Act or the repealed Act from acting in a specified office; or

(iv) being a justice of the peace or commissioner for declarations, an insolvent under administration or a person with a stated conviction; or

(b) had failed, on or before a date or during a specified period, to notify the registrar of a specified matter;

is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

(2) In any proceedings, a document purporting to be a list published under section 38 is evidence of the matters contained in the document.

(3) Judicial notice is to be taken of a notification published in the gazette under this Act.