Extracts
tions and
evidence.
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hereby required, to proceed to such trials and to the hearing of such appeals on the merits of the case only without reference to matters of form, and with- out inquiring into the manner or form of making any seizure, excepting in so far as the manner or form of seizure may be evidence on such merits.
72. Every requisition received and a copy of every from register permit issued by the Superintendent shall be entered of requisi. in the Superintendent's office in a book or books, permits to be and the production of any extracts from the said books or of any certificate as to requisitions for and grants of permits certified or purporting to be certified under the hand of the Superintendent shall on the trial of any person charged with an offence under this Ordinance be proof of the facts set out in the said extracts and certificates till the contrary is shown by or for the person so charged, and the absence of requisitions and of copies of permits from the said books shall be proof till the contrary is shown, that application has not been made for the permit required and that the permit has not been issued.
Magistrate may request
Government Analyst to report on technical point.
73. The magistrate hearing any charge under this Ordinance may require the Government Analyst or any Analyst in the employment of the Government to report on any technical point, and may order the payment of the fees due in respect of the analyst's report by the defendant in addition to any other penalty, and such fee shall be recoverable in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance is recoverable.
Certificate
of Govern-
to be
sufficient evidence.
74. At the hearing of any charge under this Ordinance, the production of a certificate purporting to ment Analyst be signed by the Government Analyst or by the Mono- poly Analyst or by any other analyst in the employ- ment of the Government shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated, unless the defendant requires the analyst to be called as a witness; but if the defendant shall require the analyst to be called the magistrate may order him in addition to any other penalty to pay a fee of twenty-five dollars for the attendance of the analyst, such fee to be recover- able in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance is recoverable.
Protection
from dis-
covery.
75. Except as hereinafter mentioned, no informa- of informers tion laid under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding whatso- ever, and no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of any informer under this Ordinance or state any matter which might lead to his discovery. Moreover, if any books, documents, or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding whatsoever contain any entry in which any informer is named or des- cribed, or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery but no further. But if on the trial of any offence under this Ordin- ance the magistrate after full inquiry into the case believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if in any other proceeding the magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the magistrate to require the production of the original information and permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.