Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A signed certificate to the effect that:
(a) anything required or permitted by this Act or the 1952 Act to be done or not to be done had or had not been done on a date specified in the certificate; or
(b) a document in the Patent Office or its library was available for public inspection on a date specified in the certificate;
is prima facie evidence of the matters in the certificate.
(2) A signed copy of or signed extract from the Register is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.
(3) A signed copy of or signed extract from a document in the Patent Office or its library is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.
(4) In this section:
"signed" means signed by the Commissioner.