192   Assessment book admissible as evidence

In any legal proceedings for the recovery of rates or charges:

(a)  a private irrigation board’s assessment book, or

(b)  any document purporting to contain a copy of any part of a private irrigation board’s assessment book that is certified as a true copy by the chairperson of the private irrigation board, or by a person authorised by the chairperson in that regard,

is admissible in evidence.