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LAND REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT)
Addition of sections 28,
29 and 30.
(Cap. 117.)
in, the Land Office, or any part thereof or any microfilm or other record thereof; and
(b) signed and certified as a true copy, print or extract by the Land Officer or any person authorized by him in that behalf,
shall, subject to the Stamp Ordinance, be admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings before any court on its production without further proof and, until the contrary is proved, the court shall presume that—
(A) the signature and certification to the document is that of the Land Officer or a person authorized by him in that behalf; and
(B) the document is a true and correct copy, print or
extract.
(2) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the admis- sibility of any evidence which would be admissible apart from the provisions of this section.".
10. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 27, the following-
"Regulations.
28. (1) The Governor in Council may make regula- tions for all or any of the following matters→→
(a) the manner in which entry and registration of memorials, deeds, conveyances, and other instru- ments in writing, and wills and judgments, and other documents in the Land Office shall be effected, and the withdrawal of any memorial, deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, or other document from registration; (b) determining the date of registration of registered
instruments and the proof thereof;
(c) particulars and documents to be furnished for the
purposes of registration;
(d) the method by which and the form in which memorials, deeds, conveyances, and other instru- ments in writing, and wills and judgments, and other documents
to are
be recorded and the manner in which they are to be maintained;
(e) the correction and amendment of any memorial or
other document;
(f) the keeping of indexes, registers and other records
of the Land Office;
(g) the use of microfilm or any other material or method for the recording of memorials, deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, and other documents, includ- ing records of the Land Office;
(h) the destruction or disposal of memorials and other documents, including records of the Land Office, recorded on microfilm or on other material;
(i) fixing the hours during which the Land Office or any part thereof shall be open to the public and empowering the Land Officer to vary such hours;
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Effect of memorials recorded on microfilm.
(56 of 1980.)
Saving in
Territories
Land Offices,
etc.
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(j) regulating admission to the Land Office or any part thereof and the use of any equipment, facilities or material therein by members of the public;
(k) regulating the conduct of persons in the Land
Office;
(1) enabling any person to be refused entry to the Land Office and the removal from the Land Office of any person;
(m) prescribing anything that is required or permitted
to be prescribed under this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any specified provision of any such regulation shall be an offence and may provide penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 2 years.
29. Where pursuant to regulations made under section 28 the memorial of any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, is recorded on microfilm- (a) the microfilm record of the memorial shall be treated for all purposes as the original memorial; and
(b) the registration of any such deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, registered prior to the date of commencement of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980, shall not be affected.
30. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this respect of New Ordinance, sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 25 and the Schedule in force immediately before the date of com- mencement of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 and which are set out for convenience in the First Schedule shall continue to apply to the registration of deeds, conveyances, wills, judgments and other instruments affecting real or immovable property in-
(56 of 1980.) First Schedule.
Second
Schedule.
(Cap. 97.)
(a) any office specified in the Second Schedule; and (b) any place approved under section 11 of the New
Territories Ordinance,
and a reference in any enactment to a section of this Ordinance referred to in this subsection shall be construed accordingly.
(2) The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Second Schedule.".
11. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is deleted and replaced Deletion and by the following-
Establishment
"FIRST SCHEDULE
PROVISIONS OF THE ORDINANCE IN FORCE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAND REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1980 WHICH SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SET OUT IN SECTION 30
of Land Office for registration of instruments affecting land.
replacement of Schedule,
[s. 30.]
2. (1) The Land Office shall be a public office for the registration of deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and all judgments,