118. Analyst’s certificate

A certificate purporting to be signed by an analyst employed by such laboratory as the Director‑General may specify (called in this section an analyst) and purporting to be a report by the analyst upon any matter or thing duly submitted to the analyst for examination or analysis may be used as evidence in any proceedings for an offence under this Act on its production by the prosecution without proof of signature and is prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein.

Where the accused person desires to examine an analyst on the analyst’s report, the accused person may require the court to summon that analyst to give evidence and the court is to then summon that analyst as a witness for the prosecution.

An analyst is bound to state the truth in a report made under the analyst’s hand.