Chapter:	463	Title:	SEWAGE SERVICES ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	8	Heading:	Presumptions and evidence in writing	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) In any civil proceedings a document, purporting to be signed by the Drainage Authority, stating in the case of proceedings for the recovery of an unpaid trade effluent surcharge-

(a) the name of the person liable to pay the trade effluent surcharge;
(b) the amount of the trade effluent surcharge;
(c) the nature and other particulars of the trade effluent surcharge; and
(d) that the trade effluent surcharge remains unpaid,

(a) the court before which it is produced shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, presume-
(i) that it was signed at the time and place specified therein by the Drainage Authority;
(ii) that the facts stated in the document are true; and
(iii) that the record of the facts stated in the document was made and compiled at the time stated therein; and
(b) the document shall be evidence of all other matters contained therein.