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Validity of process on Sunday.
Rule as to information and informer.
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THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1887.
officer to take the opium so found, together with the person in whose custody, possession, or control it may be found, before a Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
29. All informations to be laid, and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be made under this Ordinance may be had or done on a Sunday as well as on any other day.
30. (1.) Except as hereinafter mentioned, no information laid under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding, and no witness shall be obliged to disclose the name or address of any informer or to state any matter which might lead to his discovery, and if any books, documents, or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contain any entry in which any such informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the Court or Magistrate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but no further.
(2.) But if, in any proceeding before a Magistrate for any offence against any provision of this Ordinance, the Magistrate, after full inquiry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if in any other proceeding the Court or Magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the Court or Magistrate to require the production of the original information, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
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SCHEDULE.
FORMS.
FORM No. 1.
Certificate of Sale.
Date,
No.
Sold this day to
balls Bengal,
catties Malwa or
to be exported by him to
per ship
This certificate shall not be valid after noon of the
Chop.
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