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Small Unmanned Aircraft Order

Part 5—Division 3
L.N. 116 of 2021
Section 64
B4615

(4) Any safety requirements document issued and published under subsection (1) or any amendment or revocation published under subsection (3) is not subsidiary legislation.

64. Effect of safety requirements document

(1) A person does not incur any criminal liability only because the person has contravened a provision of a safety requirements document.

(2) However, if, in any legal proceedings, the court is satisfied that a safety requirements document is relevant to determining a matter that is in issue in the proceedings—

(a) the document is admissible in evidence in the proceedings; and
(b) proof that the person contravened or did not contravene a relevant provision of the document may be relied on by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negate the matter.

(3) In any legal proceedings, a document that purports to be a copy of a safety requirements document is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be presumed to be a true copy of the safety requirements document.

(4) In this section—

court (法院) means a court of competent jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and includes—

(a) a magistrate; and
(b) the Administrative Appeals Board;

legal proceeding (法律程序) includes the proceedings before the Administrative Appeals Board.