24.— (1) A water services authority or any other person prescribed shall establish and maintain records for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The records referred to in subsection (1) may be established and maintained in a form that is not legible if they are capable of being converted into a legible form.

(3) In any proceedings taken under this Act a certificate signed by an authorised person and containing information stated to be taken from records maintained under this section by a water services authority or any other person prescribed shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

(4) In any proceedings a document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (3) shall be deemed to be such a certificate and to have been signed by an authorised person unless the contrary is shown.

(5) In any proceedings a document purporting to be a copy of a notice, order, licence or other record and to be certified by an authorised person to be a true copy of the notice, order, licence or other record shall be admissible as evidence of that notice, order, licence or record.

(6) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section, including regulations to impose requirements to keep specified records made under this section and to provide for the format of those records.