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by a person in charge of a Government laboratory

and certifying the degree of accuracy of any

weighing or measuring equipment or any working

and field standard that was tested by him at the

said laboratory on a particular date,

shall be admitted in evidence before any magistrate on its

production without further proof.

(2) On the production of a certificate under

subsection (1)

(a)

the magistrate before which it is produced shall,

until the contrary is proved, presume that the

certificate was signed by the person and at the

time specified therein; and

(b)

the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of

all the matters contained therein.

Evidence of possession of equipment or goods, etc.

36.

(1) Where any weighing or measuring equipment

is found in the possession of any person carrying on trade

or on any premises which are used for trade, that person

or, as the case may be, the occupier of those premises

shall be presumed for the purposes of this Ordinance,

unless the contrary is proved, to have the equipment in his

possession for use for trade.