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COMMUNITY SERVICES (TORRES STRAIT) ACT 1984 - SECT 190

190 Evidentiary aids

(1) In proceedings to enforce a penalty for an offence against this Act--

(a) an averment in the complaint that a person named therein is part of the community resident in a council area shall be conclusive evidence thereof until the contrary is proved;
(b) it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment or signature of the chief executive or the authority of the complainant to lay the complaint;
(c) it shall not be necessary to prove the limits of a council area.

(2) Subsection (3) applies to a proceeding for an offence against section 101(1).

(3) A statement in the complaint for the offence that fluid was in a container of a type that usually holds alcohol is evidence that the fluid was alcohol.

(4) Subsection (5) applies to a proceeding for an offence against section 101(1) or 110A(b), (c), or (d).

(5) A certificate purporting to be signed by an analyst stating the results of an analysis of a fluid or other substance is, on its production, admissible as evidence of the results of the analysis.

(6) A provision of this section does not limit another provision of the section or of this Act about evidence.

(7) In this section--

analyst means a State analyst under the Health Act 1937.

homemade alcohol has the same meaning as in part 6.



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