South Australian Numbered Acts

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (SERIOUS DRUG OFFENCES) AMENDMENT ACT 2005 (NO 80 OF 2005) - SECT 29

29—Amendment of section 61—Evidentiary provisions

        (1)         Section 61—after subsection (2) insert:

        (2a)         In any proceedings for an offence against this Act, an apparently genuine document purporting to be a certificate issued under a corresponding law and to certify that an analysis of a substance referred to in the certificate was carried out in accordance with the corresponding law will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be proof of any facts stated in the certificate—

            (a)         tending to identify the substance analysed; and

            (b)         relating to the nature and results of the analysis.

        (2)         Section 61—after subsection (3) insert:

        (4)         In this section—

"corresponding law" means a law of the Commonwealth, another State, or a Territory that is prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this definition.