NEW TERRITORIES.
No. 34 of 1910.
1899
legal practi-
22. No legal practitioner shall be allowed to appear on behalf of Exclusion of any party in any matter before the Land Officer except by his special tioners. permission.
Land Officer
Court.
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23. Every judgment or order of the Land Officer and every entry Appeal from thereof in the land register shall be conclusive for all purposes: to Supreme Provided that if any person shall consider himself aggrieved by any such judgment, order, or entry, and if the Land Officer certifies that the capital value of the subject in dispute exceeds 2,000 dollars, or if a Judge shall on good cause shown grant special leave to appeal, such person may within 3 months from the date of such judgment, order, or entry, move a Judge to vary or set aside the same; and it shall thereupon be lawful for such Judge to vary or set aside the judgment, order, or entry on such terms as he may think fit.
of land
24. Except by way of appeal from the Land Officer, no proceed- Exclusion ing relating to land in the New Territories shall be commenced in disputes the Supreme Court unless the Crown is a party, or unless the Land from jurisdic Officer shall certify that the capital value of the land affected or in Supreme dispute exceeds 5,000 dollars or that the annual value thereof ex- Court. ceeds 500 dollars.
tion of
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Court may
25. In any proceedings in the Supreme Court in relation to land Supreme in the New Territories the Court shall have power to recognise and enforce enforce any Chinese custom or customary right affecting such land. Chinese customs.
26. The Land Officer shall on judgment being given in respect of Registration any land forthwith enter a memorandum of such judgment in the of judgment. Land Register. No fee shall be payable for such entry.
27. Whenever any land is held from the Crown under lease or Registration other grant, agreement, or licence in the name of a clan, family or of "t'ongs", of managers t'ong such clan, family or t'ong shall appoint a manager to represent etc. it. Every such appointment shall be reported at the appropriate
§ office, and the Land Officer on receiving such proof as he may re- quire of such appointment, shall, if he approves thereof, register the name of the said manager who shall, after giving such notices as may be prescribed, have full power to dispose of or in any way deal with the said land as if he were sole owner thereof, subject to the consent of the Land Officer, and shall be personally liable for the
* As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
+ As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.