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| (1) Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the Government Analyst, the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, the Registrar of Finger Prints, a Government Radiologist or a Government medical officer, upon any person, matter or thing submitted to him for examination or analysis and report, or any ski graph purporting to have been made by a Government Radiologist may be used as evidence although such officer is not called as a witness: |
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| (2) The report of a medical witness other than a Government medical officer, made and attested before a Justice of the Peace, may be given in evidence although such person is not called as a witness. |
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| (3) The report of any witness made and attested before a Justice of the Peace, and relating to the custody or disposal of any matter or thing used in the commission of an offence or forwarded to any State officer for examination or analysis and report or the accuracy of a plan or survey made by him may be given in evidence although such person is not called as a witness. |
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| (4) For the purpose of proving any statement made by a deceased person, the report, made and attested before a Justice of the Peace, of the Magistrate by whom the statement was recorded and the person, if any, by whom it was interpreted may be given in evidence although such persons are not called as witnesses. |
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| (5) The court may presume that the signature on any document referred to in this section is genuine and that the person signing it held the office he professed to hold at the time he signed it. |
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| (6) If in any case the Judge either of his own motion or at the request of either party is of the , opinion that it is necessary or expedient that the; officer concerned should be present to give evidence, such officer shall be summoned and examined as a witness at any stage of the proceedings. |
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