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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 48

Evidence of analysis.

48.(1) In any prosecution under this Act [or any regulations made thereunder],
the production by one of the parties of

(a)a document purporting to be a certificate of a public analyst in the form
prescribed under sub-section (5) of section thirty-four; or

(b)a document supplied to him by the other party as being a copy of such a
certificate;

(2) In any prosecution under this Act [or any regulations made thereunder], if
a defendant intends

(a)to produce a certificate of a public analyst; or

(b)under sub-section (1) to require that a public analyst shall be called as a
witness;

(3) In sub-sections (1) and (2), references to a public analyst include

(a)references to a person approved by the Ministry under sub-section (4) of
section thirty-four; and

(b)references to a public analyst within the meaning of the Food and Drugs
Act, 1955, and the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act, 1956.

(4) Regulations made under section four or section seven may prescribe a
method of analysis for the purpose of ascertaining the presence in, or absence
from, any food of any substance specified in the regulations, or the quantity
of any such substance which is present in any food.

(5) In any prosecution...

(a)for a contravention of any regulations made under section four or section
seven; or

(b)for an offence under section two or section six;

Presumptions.

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