Hong Kong Regulations

MAGISTRATES (ADMINISTRATIVE) RULES - RULE 15

Custody of exhibits

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made-see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Except insofar as the magistrate may direct all exhibits in the case shall
remain in the custody of the magistrates' clerk or of such person as the
magistrate may direct until an appeal has been lodged or the period during
which an appeal may be lodged has expired.

(2) After the expiration of the period during which an appeal may be lodged
or, in the case of an appeal, after the exhibits have been returned to the
magistrates' clerk by the Registrar of the High Court as provided by rule
19(2) the magistrates' clerk shall, subject to any order which the magistrate
may make, return all exhibits to the persons who originally produced the same:
Provided that any such exhibit as to which an order for restitution may have
been made by the magistrate or by a judge of the Court as the case may be,
shall not be returned except under the direction of the magistrate or of the
judge of the Court as the case may be. (25 of 1998 s. 2) (G.N.A. 82 of 1954)