Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 20A

Application of section 20 to banks that have ceased business

(1) Section 20 shall apply to a copy of an entry or matter recorded in a
record used in the ordinary course of business of a former bank which is
tendered in evidence in criminal proceedings as it applies to a copy of an
entry or matter recorded in a banker's record, but with the following
modifications-

        (a)	subsection (1)(a)(ii) thereof shall be construed as if for "the 
bank" there were substituted "any person duly authorized in that behalf or
otherwise responsible for administering the affairs of the former bank"; and

   (b)  a reference therein to an officer of a bank shall in relation to the
        former bank be construed as a reference to any person who is, or is an
        officer of, a person responsible for administering the affairs of the
        former bank.

(2) Section 20 shall apply to a copy of an entry or matter recorded in a
record used in the ordinary course of business of a body designated by the
Financial Secretary under section 19B(2) for the purposes of criminal
proceedings which is tendered in evidence in those criminal proceedings as it
applies to a copy of an entry or matter recorded in a banker's record, but
with the following modifications-

   (a)  a reference therein to a bank shall be construed as a reference to any
        person responsible for administering the affairs of that body;

   (b)  a reference therein to an officer of a bank shall be construed as a
        reference to any person who is, or is an officer of, a person
        responsible for administering the affairs of that body.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) "former bank" (前有銀行) means a
bank which is being or has been wound up or dissolved or has otherwise ceased
to carry on business as a bank. (Added 67 of 1986 s. 4)

"former bank" (前有銀行)