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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.