183. The Land Registration Fees (Amendment) Regulations 1967 amended the principal Regulations so as to provide that the fee payable on the registration in the Land Office in Victoria of a mortgage or a charge which affects land in the New Territories as well as land in the urban areas shall, if the mortgage or charge has already been registered in a District Land Office on payment of the registration fee, be $15 or the fee prescribed in the Schedule to the principal Regulations, whichever is the less. This new provision also applies to a reassignment, discharge, release, transfer or satisfaction of a mortgage or charge.
184. The Land Registration (New Territories) Fees Regulations 1967 revoked the Land Office (New Territories) Fees Rules and introduced fees for the registration of instruments in the District Land Offices similar to those prescribed by the Land Registration Fees Regulations for the registration of instruments in the Land Office, Victoria. Con- sequential amendments of the statutory provisions relating to stamping of documents affecting land in the New Territories were effected by the Stamp (New Territories) (Exemption and Modification) Regulations 1967.
185. The Charities (Land Acquisition) (Amendment) Ordinance 1968 amended the definition of ‘charity' in section 2 of the principal Ordin- ance consequential upon the enactment of the Registered Trustees Incorporation (Amendment) Ordinance 1968 mentioned in paragraph 187 below.
Companies
186. The Companies (Prevention of Evasion of the Societies Ordin- ance) Ordinance was extended for a further period of one year with effect from 1st January 1968 by a resolution of the Legislative Council passed on the 20th December 1967.
187. The Registered Trustees Incorporation (Amendment) Ordin- ance 1968 extended the benefit of the simplified procedure provided in the principal Ordinance for the incorporation of trustees of certain bodies of persons to trustees of charities which are not 'bodies of persons'. It also added a new provision whereby the receipt of remunera- tion by a trustee when properly acting in a professional capacity on behalf of a body of persons or charity does not constitute an acquisition of gain so as to debar the trustees from incorporation under the principal Ordinance.
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