Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024
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Evidentiary presumptions | ||
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196. (1) The AHRRA may, by notice in writing, authorise the chief executive officer or another officer of the AHRRA to give, on the AHRRA’s behalf, a certificate under this section. | ||
(2) In proceedings, a certificate signed by an authorised person containing a relevant statement shall, without further proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the certificate or that the person was an authorised person, be evidence, unless the contrary is shown, of the matters the subject of the relevant statement. | ||
(3) A certificate under this section may contain two or more relevant statements. | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
“authorised person” means the chief executive officer or another officer of the AHRRA authorised under subsection (1) by the AHRRA to give, on the AHRRA’s behalf, a certificate under this section; | ||
“relevant statement” means either or both of the following statements: | ||
(a) a statement to the effect that the person specified in the statement was or was not the holder of a licence on the date or dates specified in the licence; | ||
(b) a statement to the effect that the particulars (including the particulars relating to conditions referred to in section 156 ) specified in the statement were the particulars of a licence specified in the statement on the date or dates specified in the licence. |