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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 1, 1930.
HONG KONG.
No. 6 of 1930.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L. S.
Governor.
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, s. 4.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, s. 20.
1st August, 1930.
An Ordinance to amend the New Territories
Regulation Ordinance, 1910.
[1st August, 1930.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the New Territories Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1930.
2. Section 4 of the New Territories Regulation Ordi- nance, 1910, is amended by the repeal of the second para- graph thereof.
3. Section 20 of the New Territories Regulation Ordi- nance, 1910, is amended by the repeal of the proviso contained in lines 12 to 19 thereof (both inclusive) and by the insertion of the following proviso immediately after the word "judgment" in line 7 thereof :-
Provided as follows :-
(a) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any question or dispute to which the Crown
is a party unless the Governor consents in writing to his so doing;
(b) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any claim to arrears of rent if the monthly value of the rent exceeds five hundred dollars, or if the total claim exceeds one thousand five hundred dollars;
(c) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any claim to arrears of rent where the title of the plaintiff is in his opinion disputed bona fide, unless either (i) the defendant consents in writing to his so doing or (i) he would have had jurisdiction under paragraph (d) of this proviso if the claim, instead of being a claim to arrears of rent, had been a claim in respect of the land out of which the rent in question issues or is alleged to issne;
(d) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any question or dispute (other than a claim to arrears of rent) in respect of any land having a capital value exceeding five thousand
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