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In force2013 Revised Edition
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Part III · Evidence, Enforcement and Punishment

14. Analyst’s certificate

(1)

Notwithstanding any provision of any written law to the contrary, a certificate purporting to be signed by an analyst and purporting to relate to a controlled drug shall be admitted in evidence in any proceedings for an offence against this Act, on its production by the prosecution without proof of signature and, until the contrary is proved such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein.

(2)

In this section, “analyst” means —

(a)

any Government chemist or any person employed for the time being wholly or partly on analytical work in any department of the Government;

(b)

any chemist employed by the Government of Singapore or

Malaysia:

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Provided that no such chemist shall, without his consent, be called as a witness in connection with any report signed by him; and

(c)

any other person whom His Majesty the Sultan and Yang

Di-Pertuan in Council* may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare by name or office to be an analyst for the purposes of this

Act.

Presumption concerning trafficking. [S 20/1992]

Report

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Part IV

General

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Part I

PART I — (continued)

Part II

PART II — (continued)

Part III

PART III — (continued)

Schedules