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Power to appoint
trustees for
minors.
(Cap. 29.)
Certification of memorials.
9 of 1950, Schedule.
Land Officer
not required
New Territories.
22. Whenever any land is vested in a minor, it shall be lawful for the Land Officer to appoint some fit person to be a trustee thereof for such minor during his minority and to remove any such trustee and to appoint any new trustee. Every such appointment shall be registered by the Land Officer in the appropriate New Territories Land Office, and upon registration the land the subject of the trust shall vest in the registered trustee for all the estate and interest of the minor therein, and upon registration of the removal of any trustee the land shall divest from the trustee so removed and vest in the continuing trustee or any newly registered trustee as the case may be. The Land Officer before registering a trustee may require him to give security in such manner and to such amount as he may think fit for the due execution of the trust. With the consent of the Land Officer a trustee may buy, sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise deal with or dispose of any property to the like extent as if he were the beneficial owner thereof, anything in the Trustee Ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding.
[30]
23. For the purposes of this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary for a memorial of any deed, will or other instrument to be verified upon oath or certified by a solicitor, but every memorial shall in lieu thereof be certified by the Land Officer as correct.
[31]
24. It shall not be necessary for the Land Officer to keep an index of names of the several parties to deeds and other instruments, or of the devisors or devisees in the case of wills, or of the plaintiffs or defendants in the case of judgments, orders and lites pendentes.
Land Officer
to be commissioner
to take acknowledgments.
(Cap. 183.)
Rights etc. included in a conveyance.
[32]
25. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Land Officer and every Assistant Land Officer shall be deemed to be duly appointed commissioners for taking acknowledgments of married women under the Married Women (Disposition of Property) Ordinance.
[33]
26. (1) A conveyance shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, hedges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever appertaining
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