(1) Every inspector and restricted inspector is to be provided with a certificate of appointment signed by the Commissioner or an officer of the department authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner.

(2) An inspector or a restricted inspector must produce the certificate to a person if ¾

(a) the inspector has performed, or is about to perform, any functions under this Act in relation to a person; and

(b) the person requests that the certificate be produced.

(3) A certificate purporting to have been provided under subsection (1) is, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to have signed it or of the person's authority to have signed it, evidence in a court ¾

(a) of the appointment to which the certificate purports to relate; and

(b) of any other matter specified in the certificate.

[Section 42C inserted by No. 51 of 2004 s. 58.]