Section 95 · Chapter VII, Management and Administration
Registers, etc., to be evidence
📚 Law Minded summary
A short evidential rule. The registers, their indices and the annual returns count as prima facie evidence of what they contain.
In a dispute, that means the register is taken as correct unless someone proves otherwise — the burden sits with the person challenging it.
Section 95. Registers, etc., to be evidence
The registers, their indices and copies of annual returns maintained under sections 88 and 94 shall be prima facie evidence of any matter directed or authorised to be inserted therein by or under this Act.