Hong Kong Regulations

MAGISTRATES (ADMINISTRATIVE) RULES - RULE 8

Security book

(1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a security book, and shall enter
therein, with respect to each security given in relation to any proceeding,
the name and address of each person bound, showing whether he is bound as
principal or as surety, the sum in which each person is bound, the undertaking
or condition by which he is bound, the date of the security, and the person
before whom it is taken.

(2) Where any such security is not entered into before a magistrate or before
the magistrates' clerk, the person before whom it is entered into shall make a
return thereof, showing the above particulars, to the magistrates' clerk.

(3) The security book, and any certified extract therefrom, shall be evidence
of the several matters hereby required to be entered in the security book in
like manner as if the security book were the register.