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The registers of the Colony of Hong Kong specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be deemed to be public registers kept under the authority of the law of the Colony and recognised by the courts thereof as authentic records, and to be documents of such a public nature as to be admissible as evidence of the matters regularly recorded therein.
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For the purposes of the preceding Article all matters recorded in the register shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be regularly recorded.
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Subject to any requirements of rules of court, a document which purports to be issued in the Colony of Hong Kong as an official copy of an entry in a register specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order and which purports to be authenticated by an officer of the said Colony in the manner specified in that Schedule shall, without evidence as to the custody of the register or of inability to produce it and without any further or other proof, be received as evidence that the register contains such an entry.
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Nothing in this Order shall be taken to prohibit or restrict the admission in evidence of any copy, extract, summary, certificate or other document whatsoever which, apart from the provisions of this Order, would be admissible as evidence of any particular matter, or to affect any power which, otherwise than by virtue of this Order, is exercisable by any court with respect to the admission of documents in evidence.
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(1) This Order may be cited of the Evidence (Hong Kong) Order, 1962.
(2) This Order extends to all parts of the United Kingdom.
W.G. Agnew

SCHEDULE


Register Certifying Officer Mode of Authentication
Register of Births The Registrar of Births and Deaths, a deputy registrar of births and deaths or a district registrar of births and deaths, or a Deputy Registrar General, Legal Assistant or Assistant Registrar in the Registrar General's Department. The seal of the General Register Office and the signature of the certifying officer.
Register of Marriages The Registrar of Marriages or a deputy registrar of marriages, or a Deputy Registrar General, a Legal Assistant or Assistant Registrar in the Registrar General's Department. The seal of the Registrar of Marriages and the signature of the certifying officer.
Register of Deaths The Registrar of Births and Deaths, a deputy registrar of births and deaths or a district registrar of births and deaths, or a Deputy Registrar General, Legal Assistant or Assistant Registrar in the Registrar General's Department. The seal of the General Register Office and the signature of the certifying officer.