Certificate of arrest or surrender of deserters and absentees

(1) Where a magistrates’ court, in pursuance of section 149, deals with a person as illegally absent, then when that person is delivered into military custody there shall be handed over a certificate signed by a justice of the peace, containing the name and number of the person and particulars as to his arrest or surrender and the proceedings before the court. (2) Where a person is delivered into military custody without being brought before a magistrates’ court whether under the provisions of section 150 or under any other lawful power, there shall be handed over a certificate, signed by the police officer who causes him to be delivered into military custody, containing the name and number of the person and the particulars relating to his surrender. 95 (3) In any proceedings for an offence under section 41 or 42, a document purporting to be a certificate under either sub- section (1) or (2), and to be signed as thereby required, shall be evidence of the matters stated in the document.