Evidentiary provision

(1) The Inspector may give a certificate with respect to any matter referred to in sub-section (2). (2) A certificate of the Inspector– (a) that a mineral right was granted, transferred, suspended or cancelled on, or with effect from, a date specified in the certificate; (b) that any land identified in the certificate is, or was on a date specified in the certificate, subject to a mineral right; (c) that a mineral specified in the certificate is a mineral to which a mineral right relates; (d) that any condition specified in the certificate is, or was on a date so specified, a condition of a mineral right; (e) that a certificate of surrender was issued in respect of land identified, on a date specified, in the certificate; (f) that any condition specified in the certificate is a condition on which a certificate of surrender 63 was issued or on which any consent or approval so specified was given; or (g) that a person named in the certificate is, or was on a date specified in the certificate, the holder of a mineral right, shall be received in proceedings before any court or tribunal as evidence of that fact, but without prejudice to the right to adduce evidence in rebuttal.