138. Report or certificate of the Approved Analyst or an Additional Approved Analyst

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a document purporting to be a report or a certificate signed by the Approved Analyst or an Additional Approved Analyst upon any matter submitted to him for analysis or examination shall be sufficient evidence of the facts stated therein.

(2)

When a party against whom a report or a certificate referred to in subsection (1) is produced, requests the

Approved Analyst or an Additional Approved Analyst, to be summoned as a witness, the court shall summon him, upon that party depositing in court the expenses of summoning him including such fees as may be prescribed, payable to him and shall examine him as witness.

(3)

The report or the certificate referred to in subsection (1)

shall not be received in evidence unless the party intending to produce it has given the party against whom it was intended to be produced a copy of the report or the certificate and reasonable notice of his intention to produce it.

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