Documents or reports of registered medical practitioner, etc., as evidence.

<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>Any document purporting to be-<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>a</i>) a certificate under the hand of a registered medical practitioner, or the Chemical Examiner or Assistant Chemical Examiner to Government, under section 129A or of an officer appointed under sub-section (<i>1</i>) of that section, or<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><i>(b)</i> a report under the hand of any registered medical practitioner, in any hospital or dispensary maintained by the State Government or a local authority or any other registered medical practitioner authorised by the State Government in this behalf in respect of any person, examined by him or upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination or analysis and report, may be used as evidence of the facts stated in such certificate, or as the case may be, report, in any proceedings under this Act; but the Court may if it thinks fit, and shall, on the application of the prosecution or the accused person, summon and examine any such person as to the subject matter of his certificate or as the case may be report.]<br>