Extracts and certified copies
Section 104: Extracts and certified copies: general
233.Subsection (1) provides for the issuing of extracts of registered documents. Subsection (2) provides for the issuing of certified copies of pending documents. Subsection (7) allows the extract of a certified copy to be sent as an electronic document, for example by e-mail, if the person requests that the document be received in that form.
Section 105: Evidential status of extract or certified copy
234.This section ensures that extracts and certified copies can be accepted as sufficient evidence in court.
Section 106: Liability of Keeper in respect of extracts, information and lost documents etc.
235.This section means that the Keeper may be liable for loss caused by certain errors in extracts, certified copies and certain other information or for loss caused as a result of documents being lost, damaged or destroyed when with the Keeper. For example, if a disposition is lost in the Keeper's office, the Keeper may be liable for the costs of having it re-engrossed.