Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter XXXIX · Special Provisions Relating to Evidence
399. Reports of certain persons
Feedback & supportAny document purporting to be a report under the hand of any of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) upon any person, matter or thing examined or analyzed by him or any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the Registrar of Criminals upon any matter or thing relating to finger impressions submitted to him for report may be given in evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code unless that person or Registrar shall be required to attend as a witness—
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Chief Registrar, Deputy Registrar or any Assistant Registrar of the Federal Court, of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court;
by the Court; or
by the accused, in which case the accused shall give notice to the Public Prosecutor not less than three clear days before the commencement of the trial:
Provided always that in any case in which the Public Prosecutor intends to give in evidence any such report he shall deliver a copy of it to the accused not less than ten clear days before the commencement of the trial.
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The following are persons to whom the provisions of this section apply:
officers of the Institute for Medical Research;
*Government Medical Officers;
chemists in the employment of any Government in Malaysia or of the Government of Singapore;
any person appointed by the Minister by notification in the
Gazette, to be a Document Examiner;
Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed as such under any written law relating to weights and measures in force in
Malaysia; and
any person or class of persons to whom the Minister by notification in the Gazette declares that the provisions of this section shall apply.
The persons referred to in subsection (2) and the Registrar of
Criminals are by this Code bound to state the truth in reports made under their hands.