Singapore legislation
Clause 70
Clause 70
Evidence by certificate, etc.
(1)
A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Comptroller —
that a person was or was not, at any date, registered under this Act;
that any return required by or under this Act has not been made or had not been made at any date;
that any return made under this Act has been made by the person named therein;
that any tax shown as due in any return or assessment made in pursuance of this Act has not been paid; or
that any penalty and the amount thereof shown as due from a person named therein,shall be sufficient evidence of that fact until the contrary is proved.
(2)
Any document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.