Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

Evidence.

27.—A certificate purporting to be under the hand of an-officer of the Minister, authorised by the Minister in that behalf certifying the matters mentioned in any one of the following paragraphs, that is to say:—

(b) that a person named in such certificate was not during a specified period the holder of a curing licence;

(b) that a person named in such certificate was not during a specified period the holder of a curing and slaughtering licence;

(c) that a person named in such certificate was not during a specified period the holder of a curing licence or a curing and slaughtering licence;

(d) that premises specified in such certificate were not during a specified period premises in respect of which a curing licence was in force;

(e) that premises specified in such certificate were not during a specified period premises in respect of which a curing and slaughtering licence was in force;

shall be conclusive evidence of the matters so certified and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature of such officer or that he was in fact such officer or was so authorised.