6. Section 414 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-
| (a) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection:
| | " (1) Any document purporting to be a report under the land of the Government Analyst, the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, the Registrar of Finger Prints, Examiner of Motor Vehicles or Government Medical Officer upon any person, matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination or analysis and report, or the report of a Government Medical Officer based upon any skiagraph purporting to have been made by a Government Radiologist or such skiagraph itself and any document purporting to be a report under the band of such Radiologist upon such skiagraph, may be used as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code although such officer is not called as a witness: | | |
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| (b) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (5) of that section, of the following new subsection :
| | " (5a) 'The written statement of a public officer other than a public officer referred to in subsection (1) verified by affidavit, relating to any act done by such public officer in the performance or discharge, of any duty or function of his office may be given in evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, although such officer is not called as a witness.". | | |
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| (c) by the substitution for the proviso to subsection (6) of that section of the following proviso; |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts