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48. Seal

(1) The Court shall use such seal as the Chief Justice may direct.

(2) All judgments, orders, documents and exemplifications or copies thereof, shall be sealed with the seal referred to in subsection (1).

(3) Any judgment, order, document and any exemplification or copy thereof, shall, when purporting to be sealed under subsection (2), be admitted in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings before any court on its production without further proof.

49. Transitional

Any appeal in respect of which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council or the Court of Appeal has granted conditional, final or special leave to appeal to that Committee and the appeal has not been finally disposed of on or before 30 June 1997 shall proceed in the Court, and the Court may give such directions as to the continuation of the prosecution of the appeal as it thinks fit and shall have full power to determine by whom and the extent to which costs in relation thereto are to be paid.

50. Schedule of amendments

The enactments specified in the Schedule are amended to the extent and in the manner specified in that Schedule in relation to each such enactment.

Item	Enactment	Amendment
1.	Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1)	In section 3— (a) in the definition of “Chief Justice”, by repealing “Hong Kong” and substituting “the Court of Final Appeal”; (b) in the definition of “judge”, by repealing “the Chief Justice” and substituting— “the Chief Justice, a judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court”; (c) by adding— ““Court of Final Appeal” (終審法院) means the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal established by section 3 of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance (79 of 1995); “judge of the Court of Final Appeal” (終審法院大法官) means the Chief Justice, a permanent judge and a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal;”.
2.	Jury Ordinance (Cap. 3)	In section 5(o), by adding— “(ia) a judge of the Court of Final Appeal;”.