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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 185C

Evidentiary certificates relating to acts by enforcement agencies

  (1)   A certifying officer of an enforcement agency may issue a written certificate signed by him or her setting out such facts as he or she considers relevant with respect to:

  (a)   anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with the disclosure of information or a document covered by an authorisation in force under a provision of Division   3 or 4 of Part   4 - 1; or

  (b)   anything done by an officer or staff member of the agency in connection with:

  (i)   the communication by a person to another person of information, or information contained in a document, covered by such an authorisation; or

  (ii)   the making use of such information; or

  (iii)   the making of a record of such information; or

  (iv)   the custody of a record of such information; or

  (v)   the giving in evidence of such information.

  (2)   A document purporting to be a certificate issued under subsection   (1) by a certifying officer of an enforcement agency and to be signed by him or her:

  (a)   is to be received in evidence in an exempt proceeding without further proof; and

  (b)   is, in an exempt proceeding, prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the document.


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