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Ord. No. 65/80

EVIDENCE (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

L.S.

No. 65 of 1980

I assent.

EVIDENCE (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 65/80

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Section 61 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.

Repeal of section 61.

9.

Section 69 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of "Part IV or".

section 69.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 5th day of November 1980.

Short title.

JACK CATER, Acting Governor.

6 November 1980.

An Ordinance to amend the Evidence Ordinance.

[7 November 1980]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Evidence (Amendment) Ordinance 1980.

3.

Repeal of

2.

section 53.

(Cap. 8.)

Amendment of

section 54.

Amendment of section 55.

4.

Section 53 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.

Section 54(5) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "made in pursuance of section 53".

Section 55 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after the definition of "film" the

following definition-

"(Cap. 4,

sub. leg.)

(Cap. 4.)

"rules" means the Rules of the Supreme Court made under section 54 of the Supreme Court Ordinance;"; and

(b) in subsection (3), by deleting "under this Part" and substituting

the following-

Amendment of section 57.

5.

Amendment of section 58.

Amendment of section 60.

"under section 54 of the Supreme Court Ordinance".

Section 57 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsections (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8).

6. Section 58(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "made in pursuance of Part IV or this Part”.

7.

Section 60 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (2)—

"(Cap. 4.

sub. leg.)

(Cap. 4.)

(i) in the definition of "legal proceedings", by deleting the full stop and substituting a semicolon; and

(ii) by inserting after the definition of "legal proceedings" the following definition-

"rules" means the Rules of the Supreme Court made under section 54 of the Supreme Court Ordinance."; and

(b) in subsection (3), by deleting "in pursuance of Part IV" and

substituting the following-

"under section 54 of the Supreme Court Ordinance".

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

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