NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION. No. 34 of 1910.
(b) compelling the attendance of witness, and the production of documents:
(c) entering and viewing land and ordering inspection of any property:
(d) making and enforcing any order which may be necessary for the proper hearing and determination of any matter before him: and
(e) enforcing any judgment given under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Every person who wilfully gives false evidence upon oath before the Land Officer shall upon summary conviction before the said Land Officer be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
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22. No legal practitioner shall be allowed to appear on behalf of any party in any matter before the Land Officer except by his special permission.
Exclusion of legal practitioners.
23. Every judgment or order of the Land Officer and every entry thereof in the land register shall be conclusive for all purposes: 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 two thousand dollars, or if a judge shall on good cause shown grant special leave to appeal, such person may within three 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.
Appeal from Land Officer to Supreme Court.
24. Except by way of appeal from the Land Officer, no proceeding relating to land in the New Territories shall be commenced in the Supreme Court unless the Crown is a party, or unless the Land Officer shall certify that the capital value of the land affected or in dispute exceeds five thousand dollars or that the annual value thereof exceeds five hundred dollars.
Exclusion of land disputes from jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
25. In any proceedings in the Supreme Court in relation to land in the New Territories, the court shall have power to recognise and enforce any Chinese custom or customary right affecting such land.
Supreme Court may enforce Chinese customs.