Section 24:
Report of Insecticide Analyst.
(1) The Insecticide Analyst to whom a sample of any
insecticide has been submitted for test or analysis under sub-section (6) of section 22, shall, within a period of 1
[thirty] days, deliver to the Insecticide Inspector submitting it a signed report in duplicate in the
prescribed form.
(2) The Insecticide Inspector on receipt thereof shall deliver one copy of the report to the person from
whom the sample was taken and shall retain the other copy for use in any prosecution in respect of the
sample.
(3) Any document purporting to be a report signed by an Insecticide Analyst shall be evidence of the
facts stated therein, and such evidence shall be conclusive unless the person from whom the sample was
taken has within twenty-eight days of the receipt of a copy of the report notified in writing the Insecticide
Inspector or the court before which any proceedings in respect of the sample are pending that he intends
to adduce evidence in controversion of the report.
(4) Unless the sample has already been tested or analysed in the Central Insecticides Laboratory,
where a person has under sub-section (3) notified his intention of adducing evidence in controversion of
the Insecticide Analysts report, the court may, of its own motion or in its discretion at the request either
of the complainant or of the accused, cause the sample of the insecticide produced before the magistrate
under sub-section (6) of section 22 to be sent for test or analysis to the said laboratory, 2
[which shall,
within a period of thirty days, make the test or analysis] and report in writing signed by, or under the
authority of, the Director of the Central Insecticides Laboratory the result thereof, and such report shall be
conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein.
(5) The cost of a test or analysis made by the Central Insecticides Laboratory under sub-section (4)
shall be paid by the complainant or the accused, as the court shall direct.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 23 of 2000, s. 4, for "sixty" (w.e.f. 5-8-2000).
2. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for "which shall make the test or analysis" (w.e.f. 5-8-2000).