Hong Kong Ordinances

REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ORDINANCE - SECT 12

Certified extract from local newspaper register to be admissible in evidence

In any proceedings whatsoever against the proprietor, printer, publisher or
editor of any local newspaper, it shall be lawful for the complainant or
plaintiff to put in any entry in or certified extract from any register of
local newspapers kept by the Registrar in accordance with regulations made
under section 18, either- (Amended 15 of 1987 s. 8)

   (a)  as evidence of the truth of the matters stated in such entry or
        extract; or

   (b)  as evidence that the particulars appearing in such entry or extract
        were furnished and certified by the informant by whom they purport to
        have been furnished and certified.