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(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 Ördinance relat- ing to the land of a note to the effect that those conditions have been complied with."; and
(c) by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following-
"(4) Where a person has a right to a Crown lease of any land without compliance with 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 1987 or on the date of the grant of that right, whichever is the later.
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of 1987.)
7.
(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.".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, immediately after Addition of section 14, the following-
"Modification
14A. (1) Any modification in writing by the Crown of of Crown lease. the covenants, terms or conditions of a Crown lease shall have
the same effect as if made by deed.
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of 1987.)
(2) Subsection (1) applies to a modification made before or after the commencement of the Conveyancing and Property (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.".
new section 14A.