ORDINANCES Nos. 7 AND 8 OF 1882.
Bankers' Books Evidence.
Banishments and Conditional Pardons.
5. Provided always, that no ledger, day book, cash book, or other account book of any such bank, and no copies of entries therein contained, shall be adduced or received in evidence under this Ordinance unless five days' notice in writing, or such other notice as may be ordered by the Court, containing a copy of the entries proposed to be adduced and of the intention to adduce the same in evidence, shall have been given by the party proposing to adduce the same in evidence to the other party or parties to the said legal proceeding, and that such other party or parties is or are at liberty to inspect the original entries and the accounts of which such entries form a part.
6. On the application of any party to any legal proceedings who has received such notice, a Judge of the Supreme Court may order that such party be at liberty to inspect and to take copies of any entry or entries in the ledger, day books, cash books, or other account books of any such bank relating to the matters in question in such legal proceedings, and such orders may be made by such Judge at his discretion either with or without summoning before him such bank or the other party or parties to such legal proceedings, and shall be intimated to such bank at least three days before such copies are required.
7. On the application of any party to any legal proceedings who has received notice, a Judge of the Supreme Court may order that such entries and copies mentioned in the said notice shall not be admissible as evidence of the matters, transactions, and accounts recorded in such ledgers, day books, cash books, and other account books,
8. No bank shall be compellable to produce the ledgers, day books, cash books, or other account books of such bank in any legal proceedings, unless a Judge of the Supreme Court specially orders that such ledgers, day books, cash books, or other account books should be produced at such legal proceedings.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1885.]
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Provisions to notice to parties.
in a suit.
Power under order of Court to inspect books and take copies.
Judge may order that copies are not admissible.
No. 8 of 1882.
An Ordinance entitled The Banishment and Conditional Pardons Ordinance, 1882.
[1st March, 1882.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Interpretation clause.
1. In the construction of this Ordinance, the expression "order of banishment" means an order of the Governor in Council, prohibiting a person from residing or being within this Colony, for a term not exceeding five years.