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Exclusion of legal practitioners.
Appeal from Land Officer to Supreme Court.
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Exclusion of certain proceedings from jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
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Ordinance
No. 1 of 1883.
Supreme Court may enforce Chinese customs.
No. 34 of 1910. NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION.
(b) compelling the attendance of witnesses, 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.
22. No legal practitioner shall be entitled to appear on behalf of any party in any matter before the Land Officer except by his special permission.
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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 considers 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 on good cause shown grants 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.
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 the jurisdiction of the Land Officer in respect of such proceeding is excluded by or under the provisions of section 20: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of section 40 of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883.
25. In any proceedings in the Supreme Court in relation to land in the New Territories, the court shall have power to
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* As amended by No. 6 of 1930 [1.8.30].
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.