Hong Kong Regulations

THE RULES OF THE DISTRICT COURT - ORDER 66

PAPER, PRINTING, NOTICES AND COPIES

1. Quality of paper (O. 66, r. 1)

Unless the nature of the document renders it impracticable, every document
prepared by a party for use in the Court must be on paper of durable quality,
having a margin not less than 35 mm wide, to be left blank on the left side of
the face of the paper and on the right side of the reverse.

2. Regulations as to printing, etc. (O. 66, r. 2)

(1) Except where these Rules otherwise provide, every document prepared by a
party for use in the Court must be produced by one of the following means,
that is to say, printing, writing (which must be clear and legible) and
typewriting otherwise than by means of a carbon, and may be produced partly by
one of those means and partly by another or others of them.

(2) For the purposes of these Rules a document shall be deemed to be printed
if it is produced by type lithography or stencil duplicating.

(3) Any type used in producing a document for use as aforesaid must be such as
to give a clear and legible impression and must be not smaller than 11 point
type.

(4) Any document produced by a photographic or similar process giving a
positive and permanent representation free from blemishes shall, to the extent
that it contains a facsimile of any printed, written or typewritten matter, be
treated for the purposes of these Rules as if it were printed, written or
typewritten, as the case may be.

(5) Any notice required by these Rules may not be given orally except with the
leave of the Court.

3. Copies of documents for other party (O. 66, r. 3)

(1) Where a document prepared by a party for use in the Court is printed, the
party by whom it was prepared must, on receiving a written request from any
other party entitled to a copy of that document and on payment of the proper
charges, supply him with such number of copies thereof, not exceeding 10, as
may be specified in the request.

(2) Where a document prepared by a party for use in the Court is written or
typewritten, the party by whom it was prepared must, supply any other party
entitled to a copy of it, not being a party on whom it has been served, with
one copy of it and, where the document in question is an affidavit, of any
document exhibited to it. The copy must be ready for delivery within 48 hours
after a written request for it, together with an undertaking to pay the proper
charges, is received and must be supplied thereafter on payment of those
charges.

4. Requirements as to copies (O. 66, r. 4)

(2) Before a copy of a document is supplied to a party under these Rules, it
must be indorsed with the name and address of the party or solicitor by whom
it was supplied.

(3) The party by whom a copy is supplied under rule 3, or, if he sues or
appears by a solicitor, his solicitor, shall be answerable for the copy being
a true copy of the original or of an office copy, as the case may be.