Payment Devices Frauds Act 2006 · As enacted · Part II · Investigation
16. Evidence
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
A certified copy of an entry relating to a payment device located in Sri Lanka or outside Sri Lanka, kept by an
Issuer or acquirer in the ordinary course of business of such
Issuer or acquirer, whether kept in written form or stored by electronic, magnetic, optical or any other means in an information system or computer or payment device shall be admissible in evidence in relation to a prosecution in respect of an offence under section 3 of this Act, and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
Every document, certificate, record, register or extract thereof, if duly signed and issued by an expert either in Sri
Lanka or abroad, and duly authenticated by a senior executive of an Issuer or acquirer to whose transactions, or to whose interests such document, certificate record or register or extract thereof relates, shall be prima facie proof of the facts stated therein.
In subsection (1) “a certified copy” means a copy of the entry with a certificate written at the foot of that copy by the chief exective officer of the Issuer or acquirer or any of its authorized representatives certifying it as a true copy, and where such an entry is stored in an information system or computer, a print out of such entry certified as a true copy by an officer holding a responsible position in relation to the operation of the relevant information system or computer.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the
Evidence Ordinance or any other law the provisions of this section shall have effect and apply to the prosecution of offences under section 3.