### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

29. Certificate of posting of documents
(1) Where any Ordinance authorizes or requires any document to be served or any notice to be given by post or by registered post, a certificate purporting—
(a) to certify—
(i) that a specified document or notice, addressed to a person named in the certificate, was addressed to that person at a specified address;
(ii) that the appropriate postage on the said document or notice was prepaid; and
(iii) that the said document or notice was despatched by post or by registered post at a time and place specified in the certificate; and
(b) to be signed at the time and place specified in the certificate by the person who—
(i) ensured that the appropriate postage on the said document or notice was prepaid; and
(ii) despatched the said document or notice by post or by registered post at the said specified time and place,

shall be admitted in any criminal or civil proceedings before any court on its production without further proof.
(2) On the production of a certificate under subsection (1)—
(a) the court before which it is produced shall, until the contrary is proved, presume—
(i) that the facts stated therein relating to the posting of the document or notice specified therein are true;
(ii) that the certificate was signed at the time and place specified therein by the person who posted the specified document or notice; and
(b) the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all of the matters contained therein.
(Added 35 of 1972 s. 3)

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

30. Computation of time
General holidays, within the meaning of the General Holidays Ordinance (Cap. 149), shall be excluded from the computation of time under sections 20 and 21.
(Amended 43 of 1912 Schedule; 35 of 1998 s. 5)[cf. 1879 c. 11 s. 11 U.K.]

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

31. Proof of foreign or colonial act of state, judgment, etc.
All proclamations, treaties, and other acts of state of any foreign state or of any Commonwealth Country, and all judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any court of justice or any consulate in any foreign state or in any Commonwealth Country, and all affidavits, pleadings, and other legal documents filed or deposited in any such court or consulate may be proved in the courts of Hong Kong either by examined copies or by copies authenticated as hereinafter mentioned: that is to say, if the document sought to be proved is a proclamation, treaty or other act of state, the authenticated copy to be admissible in evidence must purport to be sealed with the seal of the foreign state or Commonwealth Country to which the original document belongs, and if the document sought to be proved is a judgment, decree, order, or other judicial proceeding of any court of justice or any consulate in any foreign state or in any Commonwealth Country, or an affidavit, pleading, or other legal document filed or deposited in any such court or consulate, the authenticated copy to be admissible in evidence must purport either to be sealed with the seal of such court or consulate, or, in the event of such court having no seal, to be signed by the judge or, if there are more judges than one, by any one of the judges of such court, and such judge shall attach to his signature a statement in writing on the said copy that the court of justice whereof he is a judge has no seal; but if any of the aforesaid authenticated copies purport to be sealed or signed as hereinbefore respectively directed, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence in every case in which the original document could have been received in evidence, without any proof of the seal, where a seal is necessary, or of the signature, or of the truth of the statement attached thereto, where such signature and statement are necessary, or of the judicial character of the person appearing to have made such signature and statement.
(Amended 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule; 8 of 1912 s. 34; 5 of 1924 Schedule; 69 of 1970 s. 2; 37 of 1984 s. 11)[cf. 1851 c. 99 s. 7 U.K.]

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

32. Proof of statutes of Commonwealth Country
(1) Copies of Acts, Ordinances and statutes passed by the legislature of any Commonwealth Country, and of orders, regulations, and other instruments issued or made under the authority of any such Act, Ordinance, or statute, if purporting to be printed by the Government printer, shall be admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on their production without any proof being given that the copies were so printed. (Amended 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 8 of 1912 s. 34; 69 of 1970 s. 3)
(2) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Chief Secretary for Administration and stating that the provisions of any such Act, Ordinance or statute, or of an order, regulation or other instrument issued or made under the authority of any such Act, Ordinance or statute set out therein were in force at the date specified in the certificate shall be admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on its production without further proof, and— (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
(a) until the contrary is proved, the court in which such certificate is produced shall presume that it is so signed; and
(b) such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein. (Added 69 of 1970 s. 3)
(3) Any person who prints any copy or pretended copy of any such Act, Ordinance, statute, order, regulation, or instrument which falsely purports to have been printed by the Government printer, or tenders in evidence any such copy or pretended copy which falsely purports to have been so printed knowing that it was not so printed, shall be liable to imprisonment for 12 months. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 4; 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule; 5 of 1924 Schedule)
(4) In this section, Government printer (政府印務局) means, as respects any Commonwealth Country, the printer purporting to be the printer authorized to print the Acts, Ordinances, or statutes of the legislature thereof, or otherwise to be the Government printer of that country. (Amended 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 8 of 1912 s. 34; 69 of 1970 s. 3)
(2 of 1908 ss. 2, 3 & 4 incorporated)[cf. 1907 c. 16 s. 1 U.K.]