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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 4th day of August, 1971.

d

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

HONG KONG

No. 42 or 1971.

IC

Clerk to the Legislative Council,

I assent.

Bruch.

5th August, 1971;

An Ordinance to amend the Fixed Penalty (Traffic Contraventions)

Ordinance.

[6th August, 1971.)

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fixed Penalty (Traffic Contraventions) (Amendment) Ordinance 1971.

1. Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsection (6) and substituting the following—

"(6) A certificate of posting in the prescribed form purporting to be signed by or for the Commissioner of Police shall be admitted in evidence without further proof on its production to the magistrate by the complainant and—

(a) until the contrary is proved, it shall be presumed

that the certificate is so signed;

Short title,

Amendment of section 15. (Cap. 237)