Validity and procedures for certificates

(1) Unless the contrary is proved, a document purporting to be a certificate given under section 59 or 60 shall be deemed to be such a certificate and to have been duly given. (2) Any certificate given under section 59 or 60 shall be headed “Certificate Made under the Fisheries Resources Act” and no certificate issued under section 59 or 60 of this Act may be used as conclusive proof of the facts averred therein unless it is served with a copy of section 61 or 62 of this Act. Fisheries Resources [CAP. 210 71 (3) An omission from or mistake made in any certificate issued under section 59 or 60 shall not render it invalid unless the court considers such omission or mistake is material to any issue in the proceedings concerned, or the defendant is unduly prejudiced thereby. (4) Where in any proceedings a certificate made under section 59 or 60 of this Act is produced to the Court, the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein unless the contrary is proved.