48. The following section is hereby inserted immediately section 53B of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as section 53C of that enactment.
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| | (1) In case of doubt or dispute, in a prosecution for an offence under section 53B, as to whether any flesh is the flesh of an animal taken or killed by the use of any poison, explosive or stupefying substance a certificate. purporting to the signed by a competent authority to the effect that the flesh in question is the flesh of an animal, which had been killed or taken by the use of any poison, explosive, or stupefying substance, shall on production in any court of law be sufficient evidence as to the facts stated in such certificate, until the contrary is proved. | | |
| | (2) In this section "competent authority ' means-
| | | (a) a Government Medical Officer; or |
| (b) a Government Veterinary Surgeon, |
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