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Proof of certificate under 62 & 63 Vict. c. 32. s. 1, legal proceedings.
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6. In any legal proceedings by a local education authority, the production of a certificate, purporting to be signed by a duly qualified practitioner approved by the Board of Education for the purposes of subsection three of section one of the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, to the effect that a child is defective or epileptic within the meaning of that section, shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated, unless the parent or guardian of the child referred to in the certificate requires the medical practitioner to be called as a witness; but it shall be lawful for the parent or guardian to give evidence in proof that the certificate is incorrect.
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