1979-HKRS28-16-27_Part02 — Page 59

Amendmed of Testion 1.

3.

Repeal and

replacement of section 4.

"identity card" means an identity card issued under this

Ordinance.",

Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) in subsection (1) by deleting "who enters Hong Kong and"; and (b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection...

4.

"(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and subject to any exemption which may be granted under 1bis Ordinance, the head of a family shall apply for the registration under this Ordinance of every member of his family who is not the bolder of an identity card.

Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following.........

**Adolealbdity of copies nd peperda.

Arbendracol of

ection 1.

5.

Asendracol of mtstion 7.

4. A document purporting to be a copy of the records or part of the records kept by the Commissioner of Registra tion and purporting to be certified as a true copy thereof by the officer having custody of the records shall be admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings before any court on its production without furtherproof and-

(a) until the contrary is proved, the court before which

such document is produced shall presume-

(i) that the document is certified by such officer;

and

(if) that the documeat is a true copy of the records or part of the records to which it refers; and

(b) such document shall be prima facie evidence of all

matters coutained therein.”.

Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in paragraph (4) by deleting "by which he elected to be

registered;" and substituting the following-

"entered on the identity card issued to such person;"; and

(b) in paragraph (c)(i) by deleting "by which such other person

clected to be registered" and substituting the following-

"eatered on the identity card issued to such olber person".

6. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (3) by deleting "one thousand dollars and imprison-

meat for six months" and substituting the following-

(Cap. 22.)

"$5 000 and imprisonment for 2 years"; and

by inserting after subsection (3) the following-

"(4) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that, notwithstanding section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinancs, criminal proceedings in respect of any such offence under the regulations as may be specified therein may be instituted within such period, not exceeding 3 years, of the commission of the offence as may be so specified.".

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 18th day of July, 1979.

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.

Pa

Clerk to the Legislative Council.