Chapter:	471	Title:	PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	66 of 2000
Section:	4	Heading:	Documents and information required by overseas courts and authorities	Version Date:	01/07/1997

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 66 of 2000 s. 3

(1) If it appears to the Chief Executive-

(a) that a requirement has been or may be imposed on a person in Hong Kong to produce to any court, tribunal or authority of a place outside Hong Kong any commercial document which is not within the territorial jurisdiction of that place or to furnish any commercial information to any such court, tribunal or authority; or
(b) that any such authority has imposed or may impose a requirement on a person in Hong Kong to publish any such document or information,

(a) if it infringes the jurisdiction of Hong Kong or territorial jurisdiction in Hong Kong;
(b) if it is made otherwise than for the purposes of civil or criminal proceedings which have been instituted in the place concerned; or
(c) if it requires a person to state what documents relevant to any such proceedings are or have been in his possession, custody or power or to produce for the purposes of any such proceedings any documents other than particular documents specified in the requirement.

(a) the making of a request or demand shall be treated as the imposition of a requirement if it is made in circumstances in which a requirement to the same effect could be or could have been imposed;
(b) (i) any request or demand for the supply of a document or information which, pursuant to the requirement of any court, tribunal or authority of a place outside Hong Kong, is addressed to a person in Hong Kong; and
(ii) any requirement imposed by such a court, tribunal or authority to produce or furnish any document or information to a person specified in the requirement,
shall be treated as a requirement to produce or furnish that document or information to that court, tribunal or authority.