Certificates of analysisN.I.
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19.—(1) Any certificate given by an analyst under these Regulations—
(a)shall be signed by the analyst; and
(b)shall specify the name of the authorised officer who submitted the sample for analysis and the name and address of the enforcement authority of which he is an officer.
(2) In any proceedings under these Regulations, the production by one of the parties—
(a)of a document purporting to be a certificate given by an analyst under paragraph (1); or
(b)of a document supplied to him by the other party as being a copy of such a certificate,
shall be sufficient evidence of the facts stated in it unless, in a case falling within sub-paragraph (a), the other party requires the analyst to be called as a witness.