Cap. 51activeordinance

Gas Safety Ordinance

氣體安全條例

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s.29

Onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc.

In any proceedings for an offence against this Ordinance consisting of a failure to comply with a requirement under this Ordinance to do something so far as is practicable or so far as is reasonably practicable, or to use the best practicable means to do something, the onus is on the accused to prove that it was not practicable or not reasonably practicable to do more than was in fact done to comply with the requirement, or that he has used the best practicable means to comply with the requirement, or done the appropriate thing to comply with the requirement.