Registration of Potato Growers and Potato Packers Act, 1984

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Evidence of contents of register.

4.—(1) In a prosecution for an offence under this Act prima facie evidence of any entry in the Register may be given by the production of a document purporting to be a copy of such entry and to be certified as being a true copy by an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister, and it shall not be necessary in such a prosecution to prove that the officer was in fact an officer of the Minister or was in fact so authorised.

(2) In a prosecution for an offence under this Act the production of a document purporting to be a certificate signed by an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister and stating that a person is not a registered grower or a registered packer shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein and without proof of either the signature thereon or that the signature is that of such officer or that he was in fact so authorised.