Cap. 8activeordinance

Evidence Ordinance

證據條例

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s.* (2)

* (2)

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                (2)
Where any question as to the law of any country or territory outside Hong Kong
                with respect to any matter has been determined (whether before or after the
                commencement of this Part) in any such proceedings as are mentioned in subsection
                (4), then in any civil proceedings (not being proceedings before a court which can
                take judicial notice of the law of that country or territory with respect to that
                matter
)—
(a)
any finding made or decision given on that question in the first-mentioned
                    proceedings shall, if reported or recorded in citable form, be admissible in
                    evidence for the purpose of proving the law of that country or territory with
                    respect to that matter; and
(b)
if that finding or decision, as so reported or recorded, is adduced for
                        that purpose, the law of that country or territory with respect to that
                        matter shall be taken to be in accordance with that finding or decision
                        unless the contrary is
proved:
Provided that paragraph (b) shall
                not apply in the case of a finding or decision which conflicts with another finding
                or decision on the same question adduced by virtue of this subsection in the same
                proceedings.