Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 421.5

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person makes, under paragraph   421 - 1(1)(c) or (1B)(c), a requirement that relates to a document or certificate; and

  (b)   the Registrar keeps, by means of a computer, a record of information set out in the document or certificate; and

  (c)   in meeting that requirement, the Registrar gives a writing or document that sets out what purports to be the contents of:

  (i)   the whole of the document or certificate; or

  (ii)   a part of the document or certificate;

then, for the purposes of paragraph   421 - 1(1)(c) or (1B)(c), the Registrar is taken to have given:

  (d)   if subparagraph   (c)(i) applies--a copy of the document or certificate; or

  (e)   if subparagraph   (c)(ii) applies--an extract from the document or certificate setting out that part of it.

Certification by Registrar

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the requirement referred to in paragraph   (1)(a) includes a requirement that the copy or extract be certified; and

  (b)   in meeting that requirement, the Registrar gives a writing or document as mentioned in paragraph   (1)(c);

then:

  (c)   the Registrar may certify that the writing or document sets out the contents of the whole or part of the document or certificate, as the case requires; and

  (d)   the writing or document is, in a proceeding in a court, admissible as prima facie evidence of the information contained in it.

  (3)   A certification under subsection   (2) is not a legislative instrument.