Evidence Ordinance

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.