South Australian Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1972 - SECT 81

81—Evidentiary provision

        (1)         An apparently genuine document purporting to be under the hand of the head teacher of a school stating that any child named in the certificate did or did not attend that school on the occasion or occasions specified in the certificate shall, in any legal proceedings, be proof of the matters so stated in the absence of proof to the contrary.

        (2)         In any proceedings under this Act, an apparently genuine document purporting to be under the hand of an authorised officer and stating that—

            (a)         a specified person is a parent of a child named in the document; or

            (b)         the child named in the document is of, above or below a specified age; or

            (c)         at a specified time, the child named in the document was or was not enrolled at a specified school or approved learning program; or

            (d)         a person named in the document is the head teacher of a specified school; or

            (e)         at a specified time, instruction was provided for the child named in the document at the school specified in the document,

shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to be proved.