Evidence of registration and registered particulars
31 Evidence of registration and registered particulars
A certificate, purporting to be signed by or for the local authority, that states a matter that appears in or can be worked out from the register kept under this Act, is evidence of the matter.
A certificate, purporting to be signed by or for the interstate authority of an interstate jurisdiction, that states a matter that appears in or can be worked out from the register kept under the corresponding law of the interstate jurisdiction, is evidence of the matter.
A certificate under subsection (1) or (2) may state a matter by reference to a date or period.
A certificate, purporting to be signed by or for the local authority or the interstate authority for an interstate jurisdiction, that states any of the following details is evidence of the matter—
details of a community based sentence or the offender for a community based sentence;
details of a part of a community based sentence that has or has not been served.
A court must accept a certificate mentioned in this section as proof of the matters stated in it unless there is evidence to the contrary.
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