### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

33. Swearing of answer, etc., in High Court in England, etc.
(1) All answers to interrogatories, disclaimers, examinations, affidavits, and attestations of honour, and all other documents required to be sworn in causes or matters depending in the High Court, and also acknowledgements required for the purpose of enrolling any deed in the said court, shall and may be sworn and taken in England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, or the Channel Islands, or in any other colony or place under the dominion of Her Majesty before any court, judge, notary public or person lawfully authorized to administer oaths in such country, colony, or place respectively, or before any of Her Majesty’s consular officers in any place out of Her Majesty’s dominions. (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 63 of 1911 Schedule)
(2) The judges and officers of the High Court shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such court, judge, notary public, person, or consular officer attached, appended, or subscribed to any such document as aforesaid. (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 63 of 1911 Schedule)
[cf. 1852 c. 86 s. 22 U.K.]

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

34. Admissibility of document having seal and signature of British ambassador, etc.
(1) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any British ambassador, envoy, minister, chargé d’ affaires, secretary of embassy or of legation, or consular officer in testimony of any such oath, affidavit, or act having been administered, sworn, had, or done by or before him under section 6 of the Commissioners for Oaths Acts 1889 and 1891 shall be admitted in evidence without proof of any such seal and signature or of the official character of such person. (Amended 9 of 1908 s. 2; 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 63 of 1911 Schedule) [cf. 1855 c. 42 s. 3 U.K.]
(2) In this section, consular officer (領事館官員) includes every consul-general, consul, vice-consul, pro-consul, consular agent, acting consul-general, acting consul, acting vice-consul, and acting consular agent. (Added 23 of 1915 s. 3) [cf. 1889 c. 10 s. 6(1) U.K.; 1891 c. 50 s. 2 U.K.]

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

35. Proof of various matters in civil proceedings
In civil proceedings—
(a) the Gazette and any Government Gazette of any Commonwealth Country may be proved by the production thereof; (Amended 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 8 of 1912 s. 34; 69 of 1970 s. 4)
(b) all proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the Government appearing in any such Gazette may be proved by its production; (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 63 of 1911 Schedule)
(c) the court may, on matters of public history, literature, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts as the court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate;
(d) (i) books printed or published under the authority of the Government of a foreign country, and purporting to contain the statutes, code, or other written law of such country, and also printed and published books of reports of decisions of the courts of such country, and books proved to be commonly admitted in such courts as evidence of the law of such country, shall be admissible as evidence of the law of such foreign country; and
(ii) maps made under the authority of any Government or of any public municipal body, and not made for the purpose of any litigated question,
shall prima facie be deemed to be correct, and shall be admitted in evidence without further proof. (Amended 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule)

### Evidence Ordinance 《證據條例》

35A. Admissibility of notarial instruments in civil proceedings
(1) A notarial instrument may be received in evidence in civil proceedings, without further proof, as duly authenticated unless the contrary is proved.
(2) A reference in subsection (1) to a notarial instrument is a reference to a document—
(a) evidencing and showing any notarial act of a notary public; and
(b) bearing the signature and the seal of the notary public.
(3) In this section—
notarial act (公證行為)—
(a) means the exercise of any of the powers referred to in section 40B of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159) by a notary public; but
(b) does not include any notarial act done before a diplomatic or consular officer of the People’s Republic of China outside the People’s Republic of China as referred to in section 10 of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (Cap. 11);

notary public (公證人) means a person who, at the material time, is qualified to practise as a notary public under section 40D of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159).
(Added 18 of 2014 s. 46)

36. Effect of notices in Gazette
Where any notice, order or other document is required by any enactment to be published in the Gazette, or where any document referred to in section 35(b) appears in the Gazette, a copy of the Gazette in which it is so published or appears shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such notice, order or document.
(31 of 1911 s. 37 incorporated. Amended 8 of 1912 s. 82; 5 of 1924 Schedule; 1 of 1927 s. 3)

37. Admissibility of document filed in foreign court or consulate
All documents whatsoever legally and properly filed or recorded in any foreign court of justice or consulate according to the law and practice of such court or consulate, and all copies of such documents, shall be admissible in evidence in the courts of Hong Kong on being proved in like manner as any documents filed or recorded in any foreign court are provable under this or any other Ordinance; and all documents whatsoever so filed or recorded in any foreign court or consulate, and all copies of such documents, shall, when so proved and admitted, be held authentic and effectual for all purposes of evidence as the same would be held in such foreign court or consulate.
(Amended 51 of 1911; 63 of 1911 Schedule; 37 of 1984 s. 11)