Industrial Relations Act, 1990
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Evidence of failure to attend sitting of Court. |
56.—(1) A document purporting to be sealed with the seal of the Court stating that— | |
(a) the person named in the document was, by a summons under section 21 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , summoned to attend as a witness before the Court on a day and at a place specified in the document, | ||
(b) a sitting of the Court was held on that day and at that place, and | ||
(c) the said person made default in attending the Court in pursuance of the summons, | ||
shall, in a prosecution against the person so named for the alleged default, be received in evidence of the matters so stated without further proof. | ||
(2) Section 18 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , shall apply to a document to which subsection (1) relates. |