Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 2021
Ord. No. 35 of 2021
Section 3
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- the magistrate may still make or review the disposal order based on written materials without calling any witness and without a hearing.
- 159AAN. Service of summons and disposal order
- (1) The service of a summons or disposal order in Hong Kong is to be made by a police officer.
- (2) A summons must be served together with a copy of the application to which the summons relates.
- (3) A summons or disposal order is to be regarded as having been duly served in Hong Kong on a person if—
- (a) it is served by hand on the person;
- (b) it is left at the person’s last known address; or
- (c) it is sent by registered post addressed to the person at the person’s last known address.
- (4) The service of a summons or disposal order out of the jurisdiction is permissible with the leave of a magistrate.
- (5) The service of a summons or disposal order out of the jurisdiction is effected if the summons or disposal order is served on the person in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction in which the service is effected.
- (6) If a magistrate grants leave to serve a summons or disposal order out of the jurisdiction, the magistrate may give directions in relation to the service, having regard to the procedures set out in Order 11, rule 5A or 6 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4 sub. leg. A), as if the procedures were applicable, with necessary modifications, to the service.
