Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 431B

431B Evidentiary provisions

(1) The appointment or power of the chief executive, the registrar of titles or an authorised officer must be presumed unless a party, by reasonable notice, requires proof of—

(a) the appointment; or

(b) the power to do anything under this Act.

(2) A signature purporting to be the signature of the Minister, the chief executive or an authorised officer is evidence of the signature it purports to be.

(3) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Minister stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—

(a) that land is or was, at a time or day mentioned in the complaint, a deed of grant in trust or non-freehold land;

(b) that, for a deed of grant in trust or non-freehold land, a person, at a time or day mentioned in the certificate—

(i) occupied or lived on it; or

(ii) enclosed it; or

(iii) built, placed or maintained any structure, improvement, work or thing on it; or

(iv) cleared, dug up or cultivated it; or

(v) depastured stock or caused stock to be depastured on it.

(4) In a complaint starting a proceeding, a statement that the matter of the complaint came to the complainant’s knowledge on a stated day is evidence of the matter.