(1) Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of the government analytical chemist, government assistant analytical chemist, government pathologist or government bacteriologist, upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him or her for examination or analysis and report, for the purposes of any preliminary inquiry before a magistrate in respect of any indictable offence, or in any proceeding in a summary jurisdiction court, or before a coroner, shall be receivable on that inquiry or proceeding as prima facie evidence of any matter or thing therein contained relating to the examination or analysis.