Short title.
New
section 25A for Ordin- ance No. 1 of 1844.
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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 19-7.10.38.—1.]
An Ordinance to amend the Land Registration Ordinance, 1844, and to confer certain powers on assistant land officers.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, follows:-
as
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1938.
2. The Land Registration Ordinance, 1844, is amended. by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 25 thereof :-
25A. Any assistant land officer acting in the place or on behalf of the Land Officer shall have the same duties and powers as are given by this or any other Ordinance to the Land Officer.
Objects and Reasons.
In terms of the principal Ordinance certain documents are required to be signed and certain things are required to be done by the Land Officer. The principal Ordinance makes no reference to an assistant land officer. In the event of the illness or absence of the Land Officer difficulties thus arise. The object of this Bill is to remove these difficulties.
October, 1938.
J. A. FRASER,
Attorney General.