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CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY (AMENDMENT) Ord. No. 31/88
7.
that the power of attorney-
(i) was validly executed;
(ii) was in force at the time of the execution of that
document; and
(iii) validly authorized the execution of that document.".
Section 14 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
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Amendment of
(a) in subsection (1)(a), by deleting "compliance" and substituting the section 14.
following-
"accordance";
(b) in subsection (3), by deleting "upon the issue" to "Land Registra-
tion Ordinance." and substituting the following--
(Cap. 128.)
(a) upon the issue by the Crown of a certificate that those conditions have been complied with and the registration of that certificate in the Land Office under the Land Registration Ordinance; or
(b) upon the endorsement by the Crown on the Crown lease of a note to the effect that those conditions have been complied with and the registration of a copy of that endorsement in the Land Office under the Land Registration Ordinance; or
(c) upon the entry on the register kept in the Land Office under the Land Registration Ordinance relat- ing to the land of a note to the effect that those conditions have been complied with."; and
any
(c) by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following— "(4) Where a person has a right to a Crown lease of land and that right is not subject to any conditions precedent— (a) the equitable interest under that right shall become a legal estate in that land as if held under a Crown lease issued in accordance with that right; and (b) for the purposes of section 42 and any other law, such a Crown lease shall be deemed to have been issued on the commencement of the Conveyancing and Property (Amendment) Ordinance 1988 or on the date of the grant of that right, whichever is the later.
(31 of 1988.)
(5) Where a person has a right to a Crown lease of any land and that land is partitioned by assignment or otherwise by deed, this section shall apply to each part of that land constituted by that partition, as it applies to the whole of that land, as if there were a right to a Crown lease of each such part.
(6) Where a person has a Crown lease, or a right to a Crown lease, of any land and additional land is granted to that person with the intent that he should hold it as part of the land leased, this section shall apply to that additional land as if that additional land were part of the land originally leased and held subject to any further conditions precedent imposed when that additional land was granted.".
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