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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.

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72. Every requisition received and a copy of every Extracts permit issued by the Superintendent shall be entered from register in the Superintendent's office in a book or books, of requisi- and the production of any extracts from the said permits to be books or of any certificate as to requisitions for and evidence. 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.

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73. The magistrate hearing any charge under this Magistrate Ordinance may require the Government Analyst or may request any Analyst in the employment of the Government Government to report on any technical point, and may order the Analyst to payment of the fees due in respect of the analyst's technical report by the defendant in addition to any other point. penalty, and such fee shall be recoverable in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance is recoverable.

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74. At the hearing of any charge under this Certificate Ordinance, the production of a certificate purporting to of Govern- be signed by the Government Analyst or by the Mono- ment Analyst poly Analyst or by any other analyst in the employ- sufficient ment of the Government shall be sufficient evidence 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.

75. Except as hereinafter mentioned, no informa- Protection tion laid under this Ordinance shall be admitted in of informers evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding whatso- from dis- ever, and no witness shall be obliged or permitted to covery. 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

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