Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 35

Register of cases and proof thereof

(1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a register in the prescribed form of the
minutes or memoranda of all the convictions and orders of the magistrate and
of such other proceedings as are directed by rules made under section 133 to
be registered. (Amended 2 of 1955 s. 4)

(2) The register, and also any extract from the register certified by the
clerk keeping the same to be a true extract, shall be prima facie evidence of
the matters entered therein for the purpose of informing a magistrate, but
nothing in this section shall dispense with the legal proof of a previous
conviction for an offence when required to be proved against a person charged
with another offence.

(3) The entries relating to each minute, memorandum or proceeding shall
contain the name of the magistrate before whom the conviction, order or
proceeding referred to therein was made or had.

(4) Every sum paid to the magistrates' clerk in accordance with this
Ordinance, and the appropriation of such sum, shall be entered and
authenticated in the manner directed by rules made under section 133.

(5) (Repealed 14 of 1979 s. 2) [cf. 1879 c. 49 s. 22 U.K.]