Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 26

Certificates as to photographic process

(1) A document in the form set out in Form 2 of the Schedule purporting to be
signed by a person duly appointed under subsection (2) and purporting to be a
certificate as to the processing of exposed film received and processed by him
shall, together with the photographic prints or photographic enlargements
referred to therein, be admitted in evidence in criminal proceedings before
any court on its production without further proof, and-

   (a)  until the contrary is proved, the court before which such document is
        produced shall presume that the signature to the document is genuine
        and that the person signing it was duly appointed under subsection

(2) at the time when he signed it; and

   (b)  such document shall be prima facie evidence of all matters contained
        therein.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may appoint in writing such public officers as
he thinks fit to carry out the processing of exposed film and to sign
certificates under subsection (1) in relation thereto.

(3) Where any document is produced and admitted as evidence under subsection
(1), the court may, if it thinks fit, on its own motion or on the application
of the prosecution or the defendant, summon the person who signed the document
and examine him as to the subject matter thereof. (Added 31 of 1969 s. 5)