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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26, 1939.
10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 75.
Proof of instruments.
Provisions as to Orders in Council.
Saving of prerogative
powers.
Interpreta- tion.
22 Geo. 5.
c. 4.
(b) may give directions prohibiting or restricting the disclosure of information with respect to the proceedings.
The powers conferred by this sub-section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers which a court may have to give such directions as aforesaid.
(2) If any person contravenes any directions given by a court under the preceding sub-section, then, without prejudice to the law relating to contempt of court, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and such fine, or, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and such fine.
(3) The operation of sub-section (4) of section eight of the Official Secrets Acts, 1920, shall be suspended during the continuance in force of this Act.
7. Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by any Minister or other authority or person in pursuance of any provision contained in, or having effect under, Defence Regulations, and to be signed by or on behalf of the said Minister, authority or person, shall be received in evidence, and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by that Minister, authority or person; and prima facie evidence of any such instrument as aforesaid may, in any legal proceedings (including arbitra- tions), be given by the production of a document purporting to be certified to be a true copy of the instrument by, or on behalf of, the Minister or other authority or person having power to make or issue the instrument.
8. (1) Every Order in Council containing Defence. Regulations shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made; but, notwithstanding anything in sub-section (4) of section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, such an Order shall be deemed not to be a statutory rule to which that section applies.
(2) If either House of Parliament, within the next twenty- eight days on which that House has sat after such an Order in Council as aforesaid is laid before it, resolves that the Order be annulled, the Order shall thereupon cease to have effect except as respects things previously done or omitted to be done, without prejudice, however, to the making of a new Order.
(3) Any power conferred by the preceding provisions of this Act to make an Order in Council shall be construed as including a power to vary or revoke the Order.
9. The powers conferred by or under this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the powers exercis- able by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown.
10.-(1) In this Act the expression "Dominion" means any Dominion within the meaning of the Statute of West- minster, 1931, except Newfoundland, and includes any terri- tory administered by His Majesty's Government in such a Dominion.