Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SHIPS AND FIXED PLATFORMS) ACT 1992 - SECT 32

    A certificate by the Attorney - General, or a person authorised by the Attorney - General to give such a certificate, stating any of the following:

  (a)   that a specified State was, at specified times, a Convention or Protocol State;

  (b)   the extent to which a specified Convention or Protocol State had, at specified times, extended its jurisdiction under Article 6(2) of the Convention or Article 3(2) of the Protocol;

  (c)   that specified waters were, at a specified time:

  (i)   within the internal waters or territorial sea, or above the continental shelf, of Australia or of a specified foreign country; or

  (ii)   beyond the territorial sea of Australia and of any foreign country;

is, for the purposes of any proceedings under this Act, prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.