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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Discipline and offences - Offences

126: Certificate by Registrar to be evidence of various matters

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"A certificate from the Registrar is proof of certain things until proven wrong."

Illustration for Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

You can use a certificate signed by the Registrar as evidence of certain things. The certificate is proof of what it says until someone proves it is wrong. You do not need to prove the Registrar's signature is real. You can use the certificate to prove things like whether someone was registered or had a licence at a certain time. It can also be used to prove what is or is not in the register. The certificate can show if someone did not give back a certificate or licence when the Registrar asked for it. It can be used to prove things about what the Board or an investigator did.

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126Certificate 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.