102Evidence of offences

1. In every case where under section 94 wilful intent must be shown, that intent shall be presumed until the contrary is shown.

2. If within a reserve or in its vicinity any person is found in possession of any wood, tree, shrub, fern, plant, stone, mineral, bird, egg, nest, animal, taonga tūturu, relic, or any part of any such thing, and, upon being thereunto required by any constable or ranger or any employee of the Crown or of any administering body employed in the reserve or by any ranger appointed under the Wildlife Act 1953, fails or refuses to give a satisfactory account of the manner in which he or she became possessed of the same, he or she shall be deemed to have wilfully removed or taken the same in breach of this Act, unless he or she satisfies the court to the contrary.

3. In any proceedings for an offence under this Act or any regulations or bylaws under this Act the averment that any lands in question form part of a reserve shall be sufficient without proof of that fact, unless the defendant proves to the contrary, and all maps and plans and copies certified as true under the hand of the Commissioner or the Chief Surveyor of the land district in which the land is situated shall be sufficient evidence of their contents without production of the original records and without the personal attendance of those officers or proof of their signatures.