(1) Any expert, who fails to submit his report within the prescribed time-limit may, after a
reminder from the competent Examining Magistrate, be immediately replaced. In such a case
he shall:
(a) give an account of the investigation which he has already carried out;
(b) return, within forty-eight (48) hours from the moment of notification of his replacement, the
objects and documents which were entrusted to him for the purpose of the investigation.
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(2) He may, in addition, at the instance of the Legal Department, be prosecuted under section
174 of the Penal Code.
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