Victorian Current Acts

SURVEY CO-ORDINATION ACT 1958 - SECT 21B

    (1)     All maps, plans, documents or papers certified in accordance with subsection (2) to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in custody as provided in subsection (2)—

        (a)     are admissible in evidence in any court or before any person acting judicially; and

        (b)     are prima facie evidence for the same purposes and to the same extent as their originals if they had been produced; and

        (c)     if certified in accordance with subsection (2) to have been made from an actual survey, are presumed prima facie to have been made by a competent surveyor—

and all courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of certification as provided in subsection (2).

    (2)     Maps, plans, documents and papers are certified for the purposes of this section if they—

        (a)     were certified before the commencement of the Public Lands and Works Act 1964 under the seal of the Board of Land and Works to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in the custody of the Board of Land and Works; or

        (b)     were certified on or after the commencement of the Public Lands and Works Act 1964 and before 1 September 1983 under the hand of the Minister of Lands to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in the custody of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey; or

        (c)     were certified on or after 1 September 1983 and before 2 November 1983 under the hand of the Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in the custody of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey; or

        (d)     were certified on or after 2 November 1983 and before 21 March 1985 under the hand of the Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in the custody of the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands; or

        (e)     were certified on or after 21 March 1985 under the hand of the Minister for the time being administering this Act or by the Surveyor-General to be copies of original maps, plans, documents or papers in the custody of a Department administered by that Minister.

No. 4732 s. 22.