Acts and Regulations

P-22.1 - Provincial Offences Procedure Act

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Certificates of acquittal and conviction
114(1)An authorized person shall, on request by any person, issue a certificate of conviction or a certificate of acquittal in prescribed form relating to a defendant.
114(2)A certificate of conviction or a certificate of acquittal purporting to be signed by an authorized person is, without proof of the authorized person’s appointment, authority or signature, admissible in evidence and is prima facie proof
(a) that the person named in the certificate was acquitted or convicted, as the case may be, of the offence referred to in the certificate, and
(b) of any other facts stated in the certificate.
114(3)A copy of a record of disposition that is certified by an authorized person to be an accurate copy of a record of disposition may be used in place of a certificate of conviction or a certificate of acquittal, and with the same legal effect.
1990, c.18, s.61