Evidence Ordinance

(1)
The Financial Secretary may, for the purposes of any criminal proceedings, designate any body formed or established outside Hong Kong which carries on the business of banking outside Hong Kong, and a certificate purporting to be signed by the Financial Secretary and certifying that any such body described therein has been designated by him under this section for the purposes of those proceedings shall, on its production without further proof, be admitted in those proceedings as prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein.
(Amended
67 of 1986 s. 2
)
(2)
The power conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised in respect of any body formed or established outside Hong Kong notwithstanding that it has ceased to carry on the business of banking or is being or has been wound up or dissolved.
(Added
67 of 1986 s. 2
)