Part III of Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8)
13. (1)
(2)
On and from the appointed day Part III of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) shall apply to the banker's records of Dao Heng Bank deemed to be vested in Hang Lung Bank by virtue of this Ordinance, and to entries made in those records before the appointed day, as if such records were the records of Hang Lung Bank.
For the purposes of section 20 of the Evidence Ordinance, banker's records which are deemed to have become the banker's records of Hang Lung Bank by virtue of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been the ordinary banker's records of Hang Lung Bank at the time of the making of any entry therein which purports to have been made before the appointed day, and any such entry shall be deemed to have been made in the usual and ordinary course of business.
(3) In this section "banker's records" shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Evidence Ordinance.
Evidence of vesting and transfer
14. (1) The production of a Government Printer's copy of this
Ordinance shall, for all purposes, be conclusive evidence of the vesting and transfer of any property and liabilities of Dao Heng Bank in Hang Lung Bank in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)-
(a)
(b)
(c)
a Government Printer's copy of this Ordinance, together with evidence of publication of notice of the appointed day, shall, in relation to any registered securities transferred to, and vested in, Hang Lung Bank by virtue of this ordinance, operate for all purposes as a duly executed instrument of transfer in respect of the transfer of such registered securities from Dao Heng Bank to Hang Lung Bank;
any deed or other document made or executed on or after the appointed day, whereby Hang Lung Bank or Dao Heng Bank, whether alone or jointly with any other person, conveys or transfers, or purports to convey or transfer, to any person (whether for consideration or not), or applies to be registered as the holder or proprietor of, any property held by Dao Heng Bank immediately before the appointed day and forming part of the undertaking, whether alone or jointly with any other person, shall be sufficient evidence that the interest of Dao Heng Bank in that property is deemed to be vested in Hang Lung Bank under this Ordinance;
where there is any other transaction or purported transaction by Hang Lung Bank or Dao Heng Bank on or after the appointed day in connection with, or in
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