636
Admissibility
of document having seal
of British Ambassador.
etc.
18 & 19 Vict. c. 42 s. 3.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
Channel Islands, or in any other colony, island, plantation, or place under the dominion of Her Majesty in foreign parts, before any court, judge, notary public, or person lawfully authorized to administer oaths in such country, colony, island, plantation, or place respectively, or before any of Her Majesty's consuls or vice-consuls in any foreign parts out of Her Majesty's Dominions.
(2.) The Judges and other officers of the Supreme Court shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such court, judge, notary public, person, consul, or vice-consul attached, appended, or subscribed to any such answer, disclaimer, examination, affidavit, affirmation, attestation of honour, declaration, acknowledgment, or other document to be used in the said Court.
25. Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or of Legation, Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, pro-Consul, or Consular Agent, in testimony of any such oath, affidavit, affirmation, or act having been administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done by or before him under the Acts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be admitted in evidence without proof of any such seal and signature being the seal and signature of the person whose seal and signature the same purport to be or of the official character of such person.
26. In civil proceedings--
Proof of various matters in civil proceedings.
(1.) entries in books of account kept in the course of business, with such a reasonable degree of regularity as may be satisfactory to the Court, shall be admissible in evidence, whenever they refer to a matter into which the Court has to inquire, but shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability;
(2.) The Hongkong Government Gazette and any Government Gazette of any country, colony, or dependency in Her Majesty's Dominions may be proved by the bare production thereof before the Court;
(3) all proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the government, appearing in any such Gazette, may be proved by the production of such Gazette, and shall be prima facie proof of any fact of a public nature which they were intended to notify;
(4.) the Court may, on matters of public history, literature, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts as the Court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate;
(5.) books printed or published under the authority of the government of a foreign country, and purporting to contain the statutes,
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636
Admissibility
of document having seal
of British Ambassador.
etc.
18 & 19 Virt. c. 42 s. 3.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
Channel Islands, or in any other colony, island, plantation, or place under the dominion of Her Majesty in foreign parts, before any court, judge, notary public, or person lawfully authorized to administer oaths in such country, colony, island, plantation, or place respectively, or before any of Her Majesty's consuls or vice-consuls in any foreign parts out of Her Majesty's Dominions.
(2.) The Judges and other officers of the Supreme Court shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such court, judge, notary public, person, consul, or vice-consul attached, appended, or subscribed to any such answer, disclaimer, examination, affidavit, affirmation, attestation of honour, declaration, acknowledgment, or other document to be used in the said Court.
25. Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or sub- scribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any British Ambas- and signature sador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or of Legation, Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, pro- Consul, or Consular Agent, in testimony of any such oath, affidavit, affirmation, or act having been administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done by or before him under the Acts mentioned in the last proceding section shall be admitted in evidence without proof of any such seal and signature being the seal and signature of the person whose seal and sig- nature the same purport to be or of the official character of such person.
26. In civil proceedings--
Proof of various matters in civil proceed- ings.
(1.) entries in books of account kept in the course of business, with such a reasonable degree of regularity as may be satisfactory to the Court, shall be admissible in evidence, whenever they refer to a matter into which the Court has to inquire, but shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability;
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(2.) The Hongkong Government Gazette and any Government Gazette of any country, colony, or dependency in Her Majesty's Dominions may be proved by the bare production thereof before the Court ; (3) all proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the government, appearing in any such Gazette, may be proved by the production of such Gazette, and shall be prima facie proof of any fact of a public nature which they were intended to notify ; (4.) the Court may, on matters of public history, literature, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts as the Court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate ;
(5.) books printed or published under the authority of the govern- ment of a foreign country, and purporting to contain the statutes,
A.D.
(6.
27.
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