2. Insertion of section 35a in Chapter 14
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The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 35, and shall have effect as section 35a of the
Evidence Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as “the principal enactment’) :—
“Statements 35a. A statement of a fact contained in a contained iN pacord, compiled—
records compiled on
by any person in the course of any trade, at
“bby business, or occupation in which he is third parties engaged or employed or for the purposes having of any paid or unpaid office held by such personal person ; and knowledge of the
from information supplied to such person ee din by any other person who had, or may such reasonably supposed to have had, statement, personal knowledge of the matters dealt when with in that information, relevant.
is a relevant fact :
Provided that such a statement shall not be capable of corroborating the oral evidence of the person who originally supplied the information from which the record containing the statement was compiled.”.