Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (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;
(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 by No. 8 of 2003
s. 75; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8).]