Hong Kong Ordinances

MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ORDINANCE - SECT 29

Proof of orders and judgments of court in place outside Hong Kong

(1) For the purposes of sections 27 and 28 and Schedule 2-

   (a)  any order made or judgment given by a court in a place outside Hong
        Kong 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 certified, which purports to be a copy of any order
        made or judgment given by a court in a place outside Hong Kong shall
        be deemed without further proof to be a true copy.

(2) A document purporting to be a copy of any order made or judgment given by
a court in a place outside Hong Kong is duly certified for the purpose of
subsection (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 place outside Hong Kong concerned.