Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1992 - SECT 70

  (1)   A certificate that:

  (a)   purports to be signed by:

  (ii)   the Chief Executive Officer; or

  (iii)   another person authorised by the APVMA to sign certificates for the purposes of this subsection; and

  (b)   states any of the following:

  (i)   that the APVMA has done any act or thing or formed any opinion;

  (ii)   that a substance referred to in a certificate was, or was not, at a particular time, or during a particular period, an active constituent, or an approved active constituent, for a proposed or existing chemical product;

  (iii)   that a chemical product referred to in the certificate was, or was not, at a particular time, or during a particular period, a chemical product, a registered chemical product or a reserved chemical product;

is, upon mere production, receivable as prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

  (2)   A certificate that:

  (a)   purports to be signed by the Chief Executive Officer; and

  (b)   states that a named person is authorised by the APVMA to sign certificates for the purposes of subsection   (1);

is, upon mere production, receivable as prima facie evidence that the person is so authorised.