High Court Ordinance

(1)
On the application of any person in accordance with rules of court, the Court of
                First Instance shall, in such circumstances as may be specified in the rules, have
                power to make an order providing for any one or more of the following
matters—
(Amended
25 of 1998 s. 2
)
(a)
the inspection, photographing, preservation, custody and detention of
                    property which appears to the Court to be property which may become the subject
                    matter of subsequent proceedings in the Court, or as to which any question may
                    arise in any such proceedings; and
(b)
the taking of samples of any such property as is mentioned in paragraph (a)
                    and the carrying out of any experiment on or with any such property.
(2)
The power to make rules of court shall include power to make rules of court as
                to the manner in which an application for such an order can be made, and as to the
                circumstances in which such an order can be made; and any such rules may include
                such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as the Rules Committee
                may consider necessary or expedient.
(3)
In this
section—
property
(
財產
) includes any land, chattel or other
                corporeal property of any description.
[cf. 1969 c. 58 s. 21 U.K.]