Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsProduction of certified copies
| 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law, a certified copy of any complaint, statement, plan or sketch obtained under section 2 by a party to any proceedings in a civil court may, without the police officer or inquirer to whom the complaint or statement was made or by whom the plan or sketch was prepared being called as a witness, be produced in such proceedings by such party in proof of the fact that the complaint or statement was made, or that the information on which the plan or sketch was prepared was furnished to such police officer or inquirer by any person or persons, if the person by whom the complaint or statement was made or every person who furnished the information on which the plan or sketch was prepared has deposed to the fact of having made such complaint or statement or of having furnished such information, as the case may be: Provided, however, that the court may, of its own motion, or upon application made by any party to such proceedings, require the production of the book in which such complaint or statement was first recorded or the original of such plan or sketch, as the case may be, or require that the person to whom such complaint or statement was made or by whom such plan or sketch was prepared be summoned as a witness. |