Hong Kong Regulations

WASTE DISPOSAL (DESIGNATED WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY) REGULATION - SECT 7

Certificates as to photographic process

(1) A document in such form as may be specified by the Director purporting to
be signed by a person duly appointed under subsection (2) and purporting to be
a certificate as to the processing of exposed film received and processed by
him shall, together with the photographic prints or photographic enlargements
referred to in the document, be admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil
proceedings before any court on its production without further proof, and-

   (a)  in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the court before which
        such document is produced shall presume that the signature to the
        document is genuine and that the person signing it was duly appointed
        under subsection (2) at the time when he signed it; and

   (b)  such document shall be evidence of all matters contained in the
        document.

(2) The Director may appoint in writing such persons as he thinks fit to carry
out the processing of exposed film and to sign certificates under subsection
(1) in relation to such processing.

(3) Where any document is produced and admitted as evidence under subsection
(1), the court may, if it thinks fit, on its own motion or on the application
of any party to the proceedings, summon the person who signed the document and
examine him as to the subject-matter of the document.