(4) When a witness is required to produce any particular document or thing the summons shall
describe it with reasonable precision.
117. Commission for the examination of witnesses.__(1) Whenever, in the course of a trial by a
courtmartial, it appears to the court that the examination of a witness is necessary for the ends of
justice, and that the attendance of such witness cannot be procured without an amount of delay,
expense or inconvenience which, in the circumstances of the case, would be unreasonable, such
Court may, if it thinks necessary, issue a commission in the manner specified in Chapter XL of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), according as the witness resides in a place in or
outside Pakistan.
(2) The court may be adjourned for a specified time reasonably suffi cient for the execution and
return of the commission.
(3) Such a commission shall be executed by the magistrate or officer to whom it is issued in the
same manner as if it was issued in the trial of a warrant case under the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1898 (Act V of 1898), or of any corresponding law in force at the place where the evidence is
recorded ; and shall be returned, together with the deposition of the witness examined thereunder to
the Judge AdvocateGeneral.
(4) The Judge AdvocateGeneral will forward the same to the court martial who issued it or, if the
said courtmartial is in the meanwhile, dissolved to another courtmartial convened for the trial of the
accused in respect of the same charge and any deposition so taken shall be recorded in evidence and
shall form part of the proceedings of the court.
118. Presumption as to signature. In any proceeding under this Ordinance, any application,
certificate, warrant, reply or other document purporting to be signed by an officer in the service of
the Government shall, on production, be presumed to have been duly signed by the person by whom
and in the character in which it purports to have been signed, until the contrary is shown.
119. Enrolment paper.__(1) Any enrolment paper purporting to be signed by an enrolling officer
shall, in any proceedings under this Ordi nance, be evidence that the person enrolled gave the answer
which he is therein represented to have given.
(2) The enrolment of such person may be proved by the production of the original or a copy of his
enrolment paper purporting to be certified to be a true copy by the officer having the custody of the
enrolment paper.
120. Presumption as to certain documents.__(1) Where any letter, return or other document
with respect to a person,___
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