(1) Where a person other than the local authority is required or permitted to carry out or to cause to be carried out any test of any material or thing, such test shall be carried out by a person recognized by the local authority as being qualified, whether by experience or by training, to carry out the test.

(2) The result of a test carried out in terms of subsection(1) shall be submitted to the local authority in the form of a report signed out by a person who carried out the test, and such report shall give accurate details of-

a) the testing-apparatus; and

b) the methods or materials used in carrying out the test; and

c) the conditions under which the test was carried out; and

d) a detailed description of all results obtained during the entire course of carrying out the test.

(3) The local authority may require evidence of the experience and training of the person carrying out tests in terms of this section to be furnished to the local authority, in order that it may be satisfied as to his competence.

(4) Notwithstanding the previous of subsection(3), if a test is carried out by a laboratory approved by the local authority, it shall not be necessary to furnish evidence and training of the person carrying out the test.