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Land Officer.
Assistant
Land Officer.
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Documents to be registered in appropriate district office.
Land Officer to decide questions
No. 34 of 1910. NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION.
of the Crown, and all persons in occupation of any such land shall be deemed to be trespassers as against the Crown, unless such occupation is authorized by grant from the Crown, or by other title allowed under this Ordinance, or by licence from the Governor or from some Government officer having authority to grant such licence.
15.—(1) The Land Officer is hereby authorized to carry into execution the provisions of this Part.
(2) Where by any enactment anything is required or appointed to be done by the Land Officer, the same may be lawfully done by any Assistant Land Officer appointed by the Governor, who shall have the same powers as are conferred upon the Land Officer by this Ordinance, or by the District Officer, who for the purposes of this Part shall be deemed to be an Assistant Land Officer.
16. The Governor in Council may by order establish one or more district land offices for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, and may also define the districts into which the New Territories shall be divided for the purposes of this Ordinance, and the place where the office for each district (hereinafter called the appropriate office) shall be situate: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to alter or vary such districts or the place of any such office as he may think expedient. Where in any Ordinance "Land Office" is used it shall be deemed to include any district land office.
17. The registration of any deed, will or other instrument, or any judgment, order or lis pendens, in respect of or affecting land shall be made at the appropriate office for the district in which such land is situate and it shall not be lawful to register any such deed, will or other instrument, judgment, order or lis pendens, elsewhere than at the appropriate office. If an instrument, order, judgment or lis pendens affects land in more than one district, it shall be registered at the appropriate office of each such district.
[ss. 18, 19, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1939.]
20. (1) The Land Officer shall have power to decide in a summary way all questions and disputes in connexion with or
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
+ For order made under this section, see the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition).
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