Section 136. Relevancy of statements under certain
circumstances.-
A statement made and signed by a person on appearance
in response to any summons issued under section 70 during the course of any
inquiry or proceedings under this Act shall be relevant, for the purpose of
proving, in any prosecution for an offence under this Act, the truth of the
facts which it contains,-
(a) when the person who made the statement is dead or
cannot be found, or is incapable of giving evidence, or is kept out of the way
by the adverse party, or whose presence cannot be obtained without an amount of
delay or expense which, under the circumstances of the case, the court
considers unreasonable; or
(b) when the person who made the statement is examined
as a witness in the case before the court and the court is of the opinion that,
having regard to the circumstances of the case, the statement should be
admitted in evidence in the interest of justice.
