Hong Kong Ordinances

MARRIAGE ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Effect of certificate of marriage or certified copy thereof

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Registrar, or a copy of
it (including any copy in the form of a reader-printer hard copy of the
microfilm, or a hard copy of the digital image, of a certificate of 
marriage), provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy by
the Registrar and to be sealed or stamped with his official seal, shall be
admissible as evidence of the marriage to which the same relates in any court
or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear,
receive, and examine evidence. (Amended 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 14 of
1926 s. 5; 20 of 1948 s . 4, 80 of 1997 s. 76; 8 of 2006 s. 44)