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Building Societies Act 1965

Register of building societies

121H: Certified copy or extract is evidence

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“Certified copies of official documents can be used as proof in court”

If you need to prove something in court using a registered document, you can use a copy or part of that document instead of the original. This copy must be certified as true by the Registrar. The court will treat this certified copy the same as the original document.

The Registrar can also give you a certificate about the details of a registered document or other information in the register. If the certificate looks like it’s signed by the Registrar, the court will accept it as proof of those details or information. The only way to challenge this is if you can prove it’s not true.

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Part 8A Register of building societies

121HCertified copy or extract is evidence

  1. A copy of or extract from a registered document that purports to be certified by the Registrar as a true copy or extract is admissible in evidence in legal proceedings to the same extent as the original document.

  2. A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar as to the particulars of a registered document in an electronic register or any other matters in the register is conclusive evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of the entry of those particulars or those other matters.

Notes
  • Section 121H: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Building Societies Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 43).