Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 66

Abolition of certain privileges

(1) The following rules of law are abrogated except in relation to criminal
proceedings, that is to say-

   (a)  the rule whereby, in any legal proceedings, a person cannot be
        compelled to answer any question or produce any document or thing if
        to do so would tend to expose him to a forfeiture; and

   (b)  the rule whereby, in any legal proceedings, a person other than a
        party to the proceedings cannot be compelled to produce any deed or
        other document relating to his title to any land.

(2) The rule of law whereby, in any civil proceedings, a party to the
proceedings cannot be compelled to produce any document relating solely to his
own case and in no way tending to impeach that case or support the case of any
opposing party is abrogated.

(3) A witness in any proceedings instituted in consequence of adultery,
whether a party to the proceedings or not, shall not be excused from answering
any question by reason that it tends to show that he or she has been guilty of
adultery. (Added 25 of 1969 s. 7)
[cf. 1968 c. 64 s. 16(1), (2) & (5) U.K.]