South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Minister may
appoint a person to be an analyst for the purposes of this Act.
(2) Subject to
subsection (4), in proceedings for an offence against this Act a
certificate signed by an analyst appointed under subsection (1) setting
out, in relation to a substance, one or more of the following:
(a) that
he or she is appointed as the analyst under subsection (1);
(b) when
and from whom the substance was received;
(c) what
labels or other means of identification accompanied the substance when it was
received;
(d) what
container the substance was in when it was received;
(e) a
description, including the weight, of the substance when it was received;
(f) the
name of any method used to analyse the substance or any portion of it;
(g) the
results of any such analysis;
(h) how
the substance was dealt with after handling by the analyst, including details
of:
(i)
the quantity of the substance retained after analysis;
and
(ii)
names of any person to whom any of the retained substance
was given after analysis; and
(iii)
measures taken to secure any retained quantity of the
substance after analysis,
constitutes proof, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of the matters in
the certificate and the correctness of the results of the analysis.
(3) For the purposes
of this section, a document purporting to be a certificate referred to in
subsection (2) shall, unless the contrary is established, be deemed to be
such a certificate and to have been duly given.
(4) A certificate
shall not be admitted in evidence in pursuance of subsection (2) in
proceedings for an offence unless the person charged with the offence has been
given a copy of the certificate together with reasonable notice of the
intention to produce the certificate as evidence in the proceedings.