Division 1 Evidence

200   Certificates etc

(1)  In a proceeding, a document that appears to be a certificate of registration, certificate of incorporation or other certificate, or an authority, issued by the Registrar under this Act, or a copy of any such document appearing to be certified as such by the Registrar, is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate, authority or copy.

(2)  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.

(3)  A copy of, or extract from, a document lodged with, created by or otherwise held by the Registrar, and certified to be a true copy or extract under the Registrar’s seal:

(a)  is as admissible in a proceeding as the original document, and

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

(4)  In a proceeding, a certificate of the Registrar stating that a requirement of this Act specified in the certificate:

(a)  had, or had not, been complied with at a date or within a period specified in the certificate, or

(b)  had been complied with at a date specified in the certificate but not before that date,

      is evidence of the matters specified in the certificate.

201   Rules

A printed copy of the rules of a co-operative housing body appearing to be certified by the body’s secretary to be a true copy of its registered rules is evidence of the rules.

202   Registers

(1)  The registers kept under this Act are evidence of the particulars directed or authorised by or under this Act to be inserted.

(2)  A copy of an entry in a register is, if apparently certified by the secretary of the co-operative housing body concerned to be a true copy of the entry in question, evidence of the particulars to which the entry relates.

203   Minutes

(1)  An entry in the minutes purporting to be:

(a)  a minute of the business transacted at a meeting of a co-operative housing body or its board, and

(b)  signed by the chairperson of the meeting at which the business was transacted or a subsequent meeting,

      is evidence that the business as recorded was transacted at the meeting and that the meeting was duly convened and held.

(2)  An entry in the minutes of a meeting of a co-operative housing body to the effect that a resolution was carried or was lost is evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of votes recorded for or against the resolution.

204   Entries

A copy of an entry in a book of a co-operative housing body regularly kept in the course of business is, if certified by statutory declaration of the secretary to be a true copy of the entry, admissible in evidence in any case where, and to the same extent as, the original entry itself is admissible.