(1) Where a person, who has been arrested otherwise than under a warrant, first appears before the District Court charged with an offence, a certificate purporting to be signed by a member and stating that that member did, at a specified time and place, any one or more of the following namely -

(a) arrested that person for a specified offence,

(b) charged that person with a specified offence, or

(c) cautioned that person upon his or her being arrested for, or charged with, a specified offence,

shall be admissible as evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

(2) In any criminal proceedings a certificate purporting to be signed by a member and stating that -

(a) that member did any one or more of the following namely -

(i) commenced duty, or replaced a specified member on duty, at a specified time at a place -

(I) where the offence to which such proceedings relate is alleged to have been committed,

(II) adjacent to the place referred to in clause I of this subparagraph, or

(III) containing evidence of the offence to which the proceedings relate,

or