Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 37

Admissibility of document filed in foreign court or consulate

All documents whatsoever legally and properly filed or recorded in any foreign
court of justice or consulate according to the law and practice of such court
or consulate, and all copies of such documents, shall be admissible in
evidence in the courts of Hong Kong on being proved in like manner as any
documents filed or recorded in any foreign court are provable under this or
any other Ordinance; and all documents whatsoever so filed or recorded in any
foreign court or consulate, and all copies of such documents, shall, when so
proved and admitted, be held authentic and effectual for all purposes of
evidence as the same would be held in such foreign court or consulate.
(Amended 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule; 37 of 1984 s. 11)