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CAP. 8]
Provisions supplementary
to sections 22 and 22A.
Evidence
[1984 Ed.
but nothing in this subsection shall affect the admissibility of a certificate in respect of which notice has not been served in accordance with the requirements of this subsection if no person entitled to be so served objects to its being so admitted.
(7) Notwithstanding subsection (5), a court may (except where subsection (3) applies) require oral evidence to be given of any of the matters mentioned in subsection (5).
(8) Any person who in a certificate tendered in evidence under subsection (5) makes a statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(9) For the purposes of this section---
(a) information shall be taken to be supplied to a computer if it is supplied to it in any appropriate form and whether it is so supplied directly or (with or without human intervention) by means of any appropriate equipment;
(b) where, in the course of activities carried on by any individual or body, information is supplied with a view to its being stored, processed or retrieved for the purposes of those activities by a computer operated otherwise than in the course of those activities, that information, if duly supplied to that computer, shall be taken to be supplied to it in the course of those activities;
(c) a document shall be taken to have been produced by a computer whether it was produced by it directly or (with or without human intervention) by means of any appropriate equipment.
(10) The Chief Justice may make rules with respect to the procedure to be followed under this section.
(11) Nothing in this section affects the admissibility of a document produced by a computer where the document is tendered otherwise than for the purpose of proving a fact stated in it.
(12) Subject to subsection (4), in this section "computer" means any device for storing, processing or retrieving information, and any reference to information being derived from other information is a reference to its being derived therefrom by calculation, comparison or any other process.
(13) The Legislative Council may by resolution amend subsection (12) so as to make it cover devices performing functions of a similar character to the functions performed by the devices mentioned in that subsection.
(Added, 37 of 1984, s. 7)
22B. (1) Where in any criminal proceedings a statement contained in a document is admissible in evidence by virtue of section 22 or 22A, it may be proved by the production of that document or