Hong Kong Ordinances

AMUSEMENT GAME CENTRES ORDINANCE - SECT 21

Proof of licence and proof of prior conviction

(1) For the purpose of any proceedings under this Ordinance a document
purporting to be a copy of a licence and of any conditions to which the
licence is subject, and to be certified by a public officer appointed in
writing by the Commissioner for that purpose to be a true copy, shall be
received in evidence on its production without further proof and it shall be
presumed that-

   (a)  the document is a true copy of the licence;

   (b)  the person who certified the document was a public officer appointed
        in writing by the Commissioner for that purpose; and

   (c)  the licence was granted in respect of the place stated in the document
        to the person stated in the document and is subject to those
        conditions.

(2) For the purposes of any proceedings under section 4, a document purporting
to be a certificate signed by a police officer of the rank of superintendent
or above that the person named in the certificate was on the date specified in
the certificate convicted of an offence contrary to section 4 and that the
offence was committed in relation to a place stated in the certificate shall
be admitted in evidence in any proceedings under section 4 on its production
and without further proof and it shall be presumed that-

   (a)  the person who signed the certificate was a police officer of the rank
        stated in the certificate; and

   (b)  the person named in the certificate was on any date specified in the
        certificate convicted of an offence contrary to section 4 and that the
        offence was committed in relation to the place stated in the
        certificate. (Enacted 1993)