4. Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
| (1) by the insertion, immediately after sub-section (3), of the following new sub-section: -
| | " (3A) A certificate issued under subsection (3) or a copy thereof purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy by the Warden shall, without further proof, be admissible in evidence in any legal proceeding and shall in such proceeding be sufficient prima facie evidence of the fact stated therein. "; and
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after sub-section (4), of the following new sub-section: -
| | " (5) In any legal proceeding any inspector or superintendent who has exercised or discharged in any place any power or duty conferred or imposed on him by or under this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly authorized under this Ordinance to exercise or discharge such power or duty in that place. ".
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts