Admissibility of medical report in certain cases

(1) Where, on the trial of any person on an indictment for murder, manslaughter or infanticide it is proved that the medical practitioner who made a post mortem examination of the body is dead or absent from Belize, any report of that practitioner made under the provisions of this Act may be received as evidence with respect to the appearances of the body when examined by him and as regards the cause of death. (2) The evidence received by virtue of subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to any deduction from its weight the court or jury thinks proper by reason of the report not 24 having been made upon oath and the accused not having had any opportunity of cross-examination.