Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

PART 8

Forensic Science Ireland Certificate Evidence

Certificates relating to receipt, handling, transmission or storage

56. (1) In any criminal proceedings, the production of a certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of Forensic Science Ireland of the Department of Justice and relating to the receipt, handling, transmission or storage, as the case may be, specified in the certificate of any item so specified shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of any fact thereby certified without proof of any signature thereon or that any such signature is that of such officer.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply regardless of whether the receipt, handling, transmission or storage of an item specified in a certificate under that subsection occurred prior to or after the coming into operation of this section.