Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act, 1991 (Act No. 112 of 1991)

Chapter 3 : Miscellaneous

21. Legal presumptions

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(1)Whenever in any judicial proceedings the question arises—
(a)[Section 21(a) deleted by section 8 of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Amendment Act, 1996 (Act No. 34 of 1996), Notice No. 1099, dated 3 July 1996]
(b)whether a person with a particular name is the holder of a land tenure right mentioned in Schedule 1 or 2 in respect of a particular erf or piece of land, a certificate signed or purporting to have been signed by any person who alleges therein that he is lawfully in control of the register of land rights in which such land tenure right is registered and that a person with a name specified in the certificate is entered in such register as the holder of such land tenure right in respect of that particular erf or piece of land shall, on production of such certificate at any such proceedings by any person, be accepted as prima facie proof of the facts alleged therein.