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ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 129

129 .         Evidentiary matters

        (1)         In all courts and before all persons and bodies authorised to receive evidence —

            (a)         a certificate purporting to be issued by the CEO and stating that any person was or was not licensed as a private adoption agency or a contact and mediation licensee, or the conditions or restrictions applicable to any such licence, on any day or days or during any period mentioned in the certificate, is evidence of the matters so stated; and

            (b)         a certificate purporting to be issued by the CEO and stating that the CEO had or had not given authority under section 82(2) for a person to have access to the information described in the certificate, on any day or days, is evidence of the matters so stated; and

            (c)         a copy of or extract from a register under section 44(1) or Division 4 of Part 4, or any statement that purports to reproduce matters entered in a register and to be certified by the CEO as a true copy, extract or statement, is evidence of the facts appearing in that copy, extract or statement.

        (2)         Judicial notice is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, of the fact that a person is the CEO and of the signature of the CEO on a certificate purporting to be issued under subsection (1).

        [Section 129 amended: No. 8 of 2003 s. 75; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8).]



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