1984 Ed.]
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(ii) any document filed in or issued out of an office kept or maintained in any place outside Hong Kong for the purpose (whether the sole purpose or not) of registering companies or business names or the ownership of property; and
(b) signed and certified as a true copy of or extract from any such record, book or document by a person having custody or control thereof.
(3) In relation to a document tendered in evidence under this section and purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy of or extract from any record, book or document by a person having custody or control thereof, it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that such record, book or document is-
(a) a record, book or document of a public nature kept or maintained in a place outside Hong Kong; or
(b) a document filed in or issued out of an office kept or maintained in a place outside Hong Kong for the purpose of registering companies or business names or the ownership of property,
if there is endorsed on the document a statement purporting to be signed by that person to that effect.
(4) Unless the court otherwise orders, a document shall not be admitted in evidence under this section unless 14 days' notice in writing of the intention to tender such document in evidence, together with a copy thereof and of the certificate of the Chief Secretary in respect thereof, has been served--
(a) where the document is tendered by the prosecution, on the defendant (or, if more than one, on each defendant) or his solicitor;
(b) where the document is tendered by a defendant, on the Attorney General,
but nothing in this subsection shall affect the admissibility of a document in respect of which notice has not been served in accordance with the requirements of this subsection if no person entitled to be so served objects to its being so admitted.
(Added, 37 of 1984, s. 4)
19B. The Financial Secretary may, for the purposes of any criminal proceedings, designate any body formed or established outside Hong Kong which carries on the business of banking outside Hong Kong, and a certificate purporting to be signed by the Financial Secretary and certifying that any such body described therein has been designated by him under this section for the purposes of those proceedings shall, on its production without further proof, be admitted in those proceedings as prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein.
(2).
(Added, 37 of 1984, s. 4)
Certificate in criminal proceedings of designation of foreign bank.
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