Petroleum Act, 1934
19. Certificate of testing
27[(1) The testing officer after testing samples of petroleum
shall make out a certificate in the prescribed form, stating whether the
petroleum is petroleum Class A or petroleum Class B or petroleum Class C, and
if the petroleum is petroleum Class B or petroleum Class C, the flash point of
the petroleum.
(2) The testing officer shall furnish the person concerned, at
his request, with a certified copy of the certificate, on payment of the
prescribed fee, and such certified copy may be produced in any Court in proof
of the contents of the original certificate.
27[(3) A certificate given under this section shall be admitted
as evidence at any proceedings which may be taken under this Act in respect of
the petroleum from which the samples were taken, and shall, until the contrary
is proved, be conclusive proof, that the petroleum is petroleum Class A or
petroleum Class B or petroleum Class C, and, if the petroleum Class B or
petroleum Class C, of its flash-point.]