(1) The Industrial Relations Act 1946 is amended by the insertion, in section 21, of the following subsection:

"(5) A document purporting to be signed by the chairman or the registrar of the Court stating that -

(a) a person named in the document was, by summons under subsection (1), required to attend before the Court on a day and at a time and place specified in the document, and

(b) a sitting of the Court was held on that day and at that time and place,

shall, in proceedings for an offence under this section, be evidence of the matters so stated unless the contrary is shown.".

(2) This section shall come into operation on the commencement of section 74 of the Act of 2015.