Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment)

Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) 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. 38 of 1969. 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 ” Registrar “, of the following new definition: ‘ ” Registrar of Finger Prints ” means any person appointed to be or to act as Registrar of Finger Prints, and includes any person appointed to be or to act as Assistant Registrar of Finger Prints; ‘. Amendment of section 406 of the principal enactment. 3. Section 406 of the principal enactment, as last amended by Act No. 13 of 1968, is hereby further amended as follows: – (1) in sub-section (3) of that section- (a) by the substitution, for the expression ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, may be used “, of the expression ” Govern ment Examiner of Questioned Documents, or any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the Registrar of Finger Prints upon any matter or thing examined by such Registrar for a finger-print, palm print or footprint, may be used “; (b) in the proviso to that sub-section, by the substitution, for all the words from ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents ” to the end on that proviso, of the following:- ” Government Examiner on Questioned Documents with the document in respect of which hi: report is so needed, or of proving the identity of the matter or thing examined by such Registrar on Finger Prints with the matter on thing in respect of which hi: report is so needed. “; (2) in sub-section (4) of that section- (a) by the substitution, for the expression ” or the Government Examiner on Questioned Documents or a Government Radiologist referred “, of the expression ” or the Government Examiner of Questioned Document or the Registrar of Finger Prints of a Government Radiologist referred ” and (b) by the substitution, for the expression ” Government Examiner on Questioned Documents or Government Radiologist “, of the expression ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents or Registrar on Finger Prints or Government Radiologist “; (3) in sub-section (5) of that section, by the substitution, for the expression ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents ” of the expression ” Government Examiner on Questioned Documents or Registrar of Finger Prints “; and (4) in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution, for the expression ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents receivable “, of the expression ” Government Examiner of Questioned Documents on Registrar of Finger Prints receivable “.