Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment)

Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Chapter 20, Volume 1, page 434. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE. BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Ceylon in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: – Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, No. 13 of 1968. Amendment of section 2 of Chapter 20. 2. Section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code, hereinafter referred to as the ” principal enactment ”, is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after the definition of ” Government Analyst “, of the following new definition: – ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents ” includes any person appointed to be or to act as Government Examiner of Questioned Documents or Assistant Government Examiner of Questioned Documents;’. Amendment of section 406 of the principal enactment. 3. Section 406 of the principal enactment, as amended by Act No. 25 of 1961, is hereby further amended as follows: – (1) in sub-section (3) of that section- (a) by the substitution, for the words ” by such Government medical officer, may be used “, of the words ” by such Government medical officer, or any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents upon any document examined by such Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, may be used ”; and (b) by the substitution, in the proviso to that sub-section, for the words ” so needed.”, of the words ” so needed, or of proving the identity of the document examined by such Govern-ment Examiner of Questioned Documents with the document in respect of which his report is so needed. “; (2) in sub-section (4) of that section- (a) by the substitution, for the words ” the Government Analyst or a Government Radiologist “, of the words ” the Government Analyst or the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents or a Govern-ment Radiologist “; and (b) by the substitution, for the words ” or Government Analyst “, of the words ” or Government Analyst or Government Examiner of Questioned Documents ”; (3) in sub-section (5) of that section, by the substitution, for the words ” or Government Analyst “, of the words ” or Government Analyst or Government Examiner of Questioned Documents “; and (4) in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution, for the words ” Government medical officer receivable “, of the words ” Government medical officer or Government Examiner of Questioned Documents receivable “.