Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A copy of a
government organization’s record keeping plan certified by a member of
the Commission is evidence of the plan and its contents and of the fact that
it has been made and approved under this Act.
(2) If under a State
organization’s record keeping plan a State record is reproduced in
another form, the reproduction has the same evidential value as the record, in
the absence of evidence to the contrary.
(3) For the purposes
of subsection (2) a certificate signed by the individual who under section 10
is responsible for a government organization complying with this Act, or by
his or her delegate, certifying that a record is a reproduction of a
government record that has been reproduced under the organization’s
record keeping plan is evidence of the certificate’s contents.
(4) A copy of a State
archive certified as a copy by the Director has the same evidential value as
the original, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
(5) Unless the
contrary is proved, it is to be presumed that a certificate under this
section, purporting to have been signed by a person who is authorised to sign
it was signed by a person who at the time was authorised to sign it.
(6) Subsections (2) to
(5) are in addition to and do not affect the operation of the
Evidence Act 1906 .