Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022
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Evidentiary presumptions | ||
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107. (1) An authorised person may arrange for the carrying out of tests, examinations and analyses of a sample or thing removed from a premises under section 95 (1) by a person specified for that purpose by the Agency or a local authority. | ||
(2) In any proceedings, a certificate purporting to be signed by an authorised person in respect of a test, examination or analysis referred to in subsection (1) may, without proof of the signature of the person signing the certificate or that he or she is authorised to sign the certificate, be produced in court and in all proceedings under this Act and is evidence, unless the contrary is shown, of the matter the subject of the certificate. |