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Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Offences - Evidence

260: Evidence of person’s documents

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"Using your documents as proof in court"

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If you are in court for something to do with the Food Act 2014, a document can be used as evidence. The document must have information on it and seem to be filled out by you or someone on your behalf. It can be something like an application or a report.

When this document is shown in court, it is enough to prove that you filled it out, unless someone can show that this is not true. You can think of it like a piece of paper that has your information on it, and it seems like you wrote it. This can be used in court to help figure out what happened.

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Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Offences: Evidence

260Evidence of person’s documents

  1. This section applies to the production in evidence of a document described in subsection (2) in a prosecution for an offence against this Act.

  2. The document is one that—

  3. is an application, form, record, report, return, transaction, or other means of stating information; and
    1. purports to be completed, kept, or provided by a person or on the person’s behalf.

      1. The production in evidence of the document is sufficient evidence, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the person completed, kept, or provided the document.