Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Official documents

Whenever, by any enactment, any certificate, official or public document, or
proceeding of any corporation or joint-stock or other company, or any
certified copy of any document, by-law, entry in any register or other book,
or of any other proceeding is receivable in evidence of any particular in the
court or before the Legislative Council or any committee thereof, the same
shall respectively be admitted in evidence, provided they respectively purport
to be sealed or impressed with a stamp, or sealed and signed, or signed alone,
as required, or impressed with a stamp and signed, as directed by the
enactment, without any proof of the seal or stamp where a seal or stamp is
necessary, or of the signature or of the official character of the person
appearing to have signed the same, and without any further proof thereof, in
every case in which the original record could have been received in evidence.
(Amended 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule) [cf. 1845 c. 113 s. 1 U.K.]