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Electricity Act 1992

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167: Certificate by Registrar to be evidence of various matters

You could also call this:

“Registrar's certificates are accepted as proof in legal matters”

The Registrar can give you a certificate about certain things. This certificate is considered strong proof unless someone can show it’s wrong. You don’t need to prove the Registrar’s signature is real.

The certificate can tell you:

If someone was or wasn’t registered, or if they had a special kind of licence, at a certain time.

What information is in the register, or if something is missing from it.

If someone didn’t give back their certificate or licence when the Registrar asked them to in writing.

Information about what the Board or an investigator did.

Remember, this certificate is trusted as true unless someone can prove it’s not correct.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
General electricity matters: Miscellaneous provisions

167Certificate by Registrar to be evidence of various matters

  1. A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar in relation to the matters referred to in subsection (2) is, until the contrary is proved, and without proof of the signature appended to the certificate, sufficient evidence of the matters specified in the certificate.

  2. The matters are—

  3. that, at any time or during any period specified in the certificate, any person was or was not a registered person or a holder of a particular class of licence:
    1. that any entry in the register is as stated in the certificate or that any entry is absent from the register:
      1. that any person has failed or refused to surrender any certificate or licence within 10 working days of a written demand by the Registrar to do so:
        1. any matter relating to any act or proceeding of the Board or an investigator.

          Notes
          • Section 167: substituted, on , by section 25 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).