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Provision for certain
instruments not registered in the Japanese house registration office.
CAP. 256] Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation)
[1984 Ed.
(2) Until such rules and orders are made and in so far as the same may make no provision the rules and orders, practice and procedure, forms and fees for the time being in force in the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction or in the District Court, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be in force with such modifications as the circumstances may require.
10. Whenever, by reason of the regulations, practice or procedure applicable to the Japanese house registration office, or by reason of the absence of parties, or for any other reason which the court shall deem sufficient, a conveyance, assignment or other disposition of any land, house or building, executed during the Japanese occupation otherwise than by way of mortgage or re-assignment, was not registered at the Japanese house registration office and such conveyance, assignment or other disposition was, by reason of not being under seal, or owing to the parcels being incorrectly described, or through any defect in form or otherwise, inoperative according to the law in force in the Colony immediately prior to the Japanese occupation to carry out the true intention of the parties, then the provisions of sections 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 shall apply to such conveyance, assignment or disposition in like manner as if it had been a Japanese assignment within the meaning of this Ordinance.