38. Insertion of new section 46A in the principal enactment

The following new section is inserted immediately after section 46 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 46A of that enactment:—

46A. A Certificate signed by the Competent

Authority certifying that any plant or part thereof forwarded to the Competent Authority for examination and report to the effect that such plant or part thereof is a plant or a part included in Schedule VIII, shall be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein.

In this section “Competent Authority” shall mean—

the Director of the National Botanical

the Conservator-General of the