58. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after the heading " CERTIFIED COPIES " appearing immediately after section 440, and shall have effect as section 440A, of the principal enactment :-
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| | (1) Where a party to any proceedings in a civil court requires for the purpose of such proceedings a certified copy of any complaint or statement made to a police officer, or an inquirer, whether in the course of any investigation or otherwise, or of any plan, or sketch prepared by a police officer, or an inquirer, on information furnished by any person or persons, such party shall, upon the payment by such party to the appropriate authority of the usual charges, be entitled to obtain a certified copy of such complaint, statement, plan or sketch, as the case may be; and the court, upon application made in that behalf, may direct the appropriate authority to issue such certified copy. | | |
| | (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law, a certified copy of any complaint, statement, plan or sketch obtained under the preceding subsection 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: | | |
| | (3) In the preceding subsections- "appropriate authority "-
| | | (a) in relation to any information or statement recorded in an information book, kept by an officer in charge of a police station, means such officer; |
| (b) in relation to any plan or sketch prepared by a police officer attached to a police station, means the officer in charge of that police station; and |
| (c) in relation to any information or statement recorded in an information book kept by an inquirer for any area or any plan or sketch prepared by an inquirer for any area means the inquirer for such area; |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts