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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, or Government medical officer upon any person, matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination or analysis and report, or the report of a Government medical officer based upon any ski graph purporting to have been made by a Government Radiologist or such skiagraph itself and any document purporting to be a report under the hand of such Radiologist upon such skiagraph, may be used as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code although such officer is not called as a witness: |
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| (2) The depositions regarding an identification parade (or the notes thereof) held by a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace and the depositions of the witnesses who assisted the Magistrate or the Justice of the Peace to hold the parade or affidavits by them may be given in evidence in any inquiry, trial or proceeding under this Code although the deponents or the Magistrate or the Justice of the Peace or the witnesses referred to are not called to testify as witnesses. |
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| (3) 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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| (4) 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 public officer for examination or analysis and report of the accuracy of a plan or survey or sketch made by him may be given in evidence although such person is not called as a witness. |
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| (5) For the purpose of proving any statement made by a deceased person, the report 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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| (6) The court may presume that the signature on any such document 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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