Section 67, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) A document purporting to be a report under the handof a medical practitioner, dental surgeon or chemist duly registered with the appropriate regulatory body or a forensic scientist or expert duly registered for that purpose, relating to the examination or analysis of- (a) a body, body part or body fluid; or (b) the extent of injuries of a person; may, if it is directed to the Court or the prosecuting authority or produced by a Police Officer or a person to whom it is directed or to someone acting on his behalf, be used as evidence of the facts stated in it in a committal proceeding, trial or other proceeding under this Act. (2) A document purporting to be a report under the hand of a pharmacist, chemist, forensic analyst, geoscientist, environmental expert, laboratory technician or other scientist duly registered for that purpose, relating to a substance or thing submitted to him for examination or analysis, may, if it is directed to the Court or produced by a person to whom it is directed or someone acting on his behalf, be used as evidence of the facts stated in it at a committal proceeding, trial or other proceeding under this Act. (3) A document purporting to be a report under the hand of a licensed surveyor, an engineer, architect, quantity surveyor or other examining officer relating to - (a) land, civil works, buildings, electrical installations, equipment, appliances, plants or machinery; or (b) the condition or operations of any motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or conveyance; may, if it is directed to the Court or the prosecuting authority or produced by a Police Officer or a person to whom it is directed or someone acting on his behalf, be used as evidence of the facts stated in a committal proceeding, trial or other proceeding under this Act. (4) A document purporting to be a report under the hand of a forensic accountant, financial analyst, information technologist or expert actuarial scientist or other scientist or examiner relating to any document,process or thing submitted to him for examination or analysis may, if it is directed to the Court or the prosecuting authority or is produced by a person to whom it is directed or someone acting on his behalf, be used as evidence of the facts stated in it at a committal proceeding, trial or other proceeding under this Act. (5) The Court may presume that the signature to a document is genuine and that the person signing it held the office which he professed to hold or was recognised as such at the time when he signed it. (6) Upon receiving a report in evidence the Court shall, if it thinks such a course proper for the ends of justice, summon and examine a person referred to in subsections (1), (2) (3) and (4) as a witness or cause the person's evidence to be taken on commission, as the circumstances of the case shall require. (7) For the purposes of this section, "vessel" includes an ocean-going ship, locally constructed boat and any other vessel plying the coastal or inland waterways of Sierra Leone. DEFENCE OF UNSOUNDNESS OF MIND