Amendment
of Schedule.
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(b) any document purporting to be made by or on behalf of the bank or other person on whom any cheque or bill of exchange was drawn bears any writing indicating that payment of the cheque or bill of ex- change was refused upon presentation on or after becoming duc,
then, in any proceeding for an offence under section 50, payment of the cheque or bill of exchange shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been so refused.
(2) The provisions of this section shall apply whether or not the bank or other person on whom the cheque or bill of exchange was drawn carries on business in the Colony and whether the writing was written on the cheque or bill of exchange or the document within or outside the Colany.
(3) Any document purporting to be a docu- ment of the kind specified in subsection (1) or purporting to be a copy or reproduction of any such document shall be admitted in evidence on its pro- duction by the prosecution without further proof.
(4) Where any cheque or bill of exchange or any document of the kind specified in subsection (1), or any copy or reproduction of any such document, is to be adduced in evidence for the prosecution in any proceeding for an offence under section 50, a copy thereof shall be served on the defendant not less than fourteen days before the commencement of the trial.
(5) If service is not effected in accordance with subsection (4), the court may on application by the accused grant an adjournment for such period as the court considers just.".
3. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended in the second column by inserting, after the offences specified therein-
(a) opposite "Demanding with menaces (section 48)" in the
first column-
"(iv) False pretences and fraud (section 50)"'; and (b) opposite "False pretences and fraud (section 50)" in
the first column-
"(iv) Demanding with menaces (section 48)".
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This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 30th day of March, 1967, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
(Secretariat GR 10/2706/47)
Jana
Deputy Clerk of Councils.