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| (1) On every inquiry and trial in a Magistrate's Court all documentary evidence shall be filed in the record and initialled by the Magistrate and dated with the date of its receipt by him. |
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| (2) Where any document is not in the language of the court there shall be filed with it a translation of such document or of so much thereof as is material, in the language of the court. |
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| (3) It shall be lawful for a Judge to require any document to be translated into a language with which he is familiar. |
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| (4) When any documentary evidence is of such a nature, that it is impracticable or inconvenient to file the same in the record the Magistrate may after initialing it for the purpose of identification return the same to the person producing it, who shall be legally bound to produce it again before the court of trial, but the Magistrate shall in that case cause a copy to be made of such part or portion of the document as is relevant and filed with the record. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts