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PESTICIDES ACT 1999 - SECT 107 Evidence of analysts

PESTICIDES ACT 1999 - SECT 107

Evidence of analysts

107 Evidence of analysts

(1) The Environment Protection Authority may, by instrument in writing, appoint appropriately qualified persons to be analysts for the purposes of this Act.
(2) A certificate of such an analyst stating the result of an analysis or examination is admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Act as evidence of the facts stated in the certificate and the correctness of the result of the analysis or examination.
(3) A certificate of an analyst that a container containing a sample was received at a specified laboratory and that the container was sealed by an authorised officer or another person is admissible in proceedings under this Act as evidence--
(a) of the facts stated in the certificate, and
(b) that the sample was the same sample as the sample obtained by the authorised officer or other person, and
(c) that the sample had not been tampered with since the time the container was sealed by the authorised officer or other person.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a document purporting to be a certificate under this section is, unless the contrary is proved, to be taken to be such a certificate.