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Contracts of employment

9.

(1) Section 7(a) shall apply to a contract for the employment of any person by Far East Bank; and employment with Far East Bank and First Pacific Bank under any such contract shall be deemed for all purposes to be a single continuing employment.

(2)

No director or

or auditor of Far East Bank shall by virtue only of this Ordinance become a director or, as the case may be, auditor of First Pacific Bank.

Evidence: books and documents

10.

(1)

All books and other documents which would, before the appointed day, have been evidence in respect of any matter for ΟΙ against Far East Bank shall be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against First Pacific Bank.

(2)

In this section "documents" has

has the same meaning as in section 55 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8).

Part III of Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8)

11.

(1)

On and from the appointed day Part III of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) shall apply to the banker's records of Far East Bank deemed to be vested in First Pacific Bank by virtue of this Ordinance, and to entries made in those records before the appointed day, as if such records were the records of First Pacific Bank.

(2)

of the Evidence have become the

For the purposes of section 20 Ordinance, banker's records which are deemed to banker's records of First Pacific Bank by virtue of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been the ordinary banker's records of First Pacific Bank at the time of the making any entry therein which purports to have been made before the appointed day, and any such entry shall be deemed to have been made in the usual and ordinary course of business.

(3)

In this section "banker's records" shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Evidence Ordinance.

Evidence of vesting and transfer

12.

(1)

The production of a Government Printer's copy of this Ordinance shall, for all purposes, be conclusive evidence of the vesting and transfer of any property and liabilities of Far East Bank in First Pacific Bank in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

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