Hong Kong Regulations

DRUG TRAFFICKING (RECOVERY OF PROCEEDS) (DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 4

Proof of orders and judgments of court in a designated country

(1) For the purposes of sections 28 and 29 of the Ordinance, and of the other
provisions of the Ordinance as applied under paragraph 3(2)-

   (a)  any order made or judgment given by a court in a designated  country
        purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any
        person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court,
        shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as
        the case may be, to have been signed by that person; and

   (b)  a document, duly authenticated, which purports to be a copy of any
        order made or judgment given by a court in a designated country shall
        be deemed without further proof to be a true copy.

(2) A document purporting to be a copy of any order made or judgement given by
a court in a designated country is duly authenticated for the purpose of
subparagraph (1)(b) if it purports to be certified by any person in his
capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court in question or by or
on behalf of the appropriate authority of the designated country. (Enacted
1991)