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Section 332

Report of Government Medical Officer

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 291 of 411
Section 332
(1)

The Medical Officer making any such examination shall draw up a report of the appearance of the body and of the conclusions

*NOTE—Medical Officers of the Armed Forces to be regarded as Government Medical Officers, for the purpose of inquiries into deaths and evidence under the Criminal Procedure Code—see L.N. 198/1952.

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which he draws from it, and shall certify as to the cause of death and shall date and sign the report and transmit it to the Officer in charge of the Police District who shall attach it to the report forwarded under subsection 329(5).

(2)

The report of the Medical Officer and also the report of an officer of the Institute for Medical Research on anything transmitted to him under subsection 331(2) shall be admissible as evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it at any inquiry held under this Chapter.