Financial Intermediaries Act 1996

In a proceeding, a document appearing to be a certificate of registration, certificate of incorporation or other certificate issued by the registrar under this Act, or a copy of that type of document appearing to be certified as such by the registrar, is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate or copy.

Judicial notice must be taken of the imprint of the registrar’s seal appearing on a document and the document must be presumed to have been properly sealed until the contrary is proved.

A copy of, or extract from, a document filed with, created or otherwise held by the registrar, and certified to be a true copy or extract under the registrar’s seal—

is admissible in a proceeding as the original document; and

has the same validity in evidence as the original document or the extracted part of the original document.

In a proceeding, a certificate of the registrar stating that a requirement of this Act specified in the certificate—

had, or had not, been complied with at a date or within a period stated in the certificate; or

had been complied with at a date stated in the certificate but not before that date;