Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) All courts and
persons acting judicially shall admit and receive as evidence of the
incorporation of a company incorporated or registered in the United Kingdom,
either before or after the commencement of this Act, a certificate of the
incorporation or registration thereof which purports to have been signed
—
(a) by
the registrar or an assistant or deputy registrar of companies in England,
Scotland, or Ireland; or
(b) by a
person whose authority to give the same shall be verified by a statutory
declaration made before any judge or justice of the peace, of whose signature
such courts and persons aforesaid shall take judicial notice.
And the date of
incorporation or registration mentioned in such certificate shall be evidence
of the date on which the company was incorporated or registered.
(2) Any copy of or
extract from any document kept and registered at the office for the
registration of companies in the United Kingdom or any part thereof, if
certified under the hand of the registrar or an assistant or deputy registrar,
shall, before all courts and persons acting judicially, be admissible in
evidence in all cases in which the original document is admissible in evidence
and for the same purposes and to the same extent.
(3) A reference in
subsection (1) or (2) to the registrar or an assistant or deputy registrar
shall be construed —
[(a) deleted]
(b) as
including a reference to a person holding within the office for the
registration of companies in the United Kingdom or any part thereof or an
office which corresponds to the office of Commissioner for Corporate Affairs
or Assistant Commissioner for Corporate Affairs or Deputy Commissioner for
Corporate Affairs under the Companies (Administration) Act 1982 or any
corresponding previous enactment.
[Section 79 amended: No. 10 of 1982 s. 28; No. 8
of 2009 s. 7.]