1984 Ed.]
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(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 Secretary for District Administration, who for the purposes of this Part shall be deemed to be an Assistant Land Officer. (Amended, 51 of 1911; 13 of 1912, Schedule: 5 of 1924, s. 9; 33 of 1939, Schedule: 62 of 1948, s. 2: L.N. 94/74; L.N. 370/81 and L.N. 14/83)
10. (1) Where in any Ordinance the expression “Land Office” or "District Land Office" is used it shall include such places as the Governor in Council may by order from time to time approve as a New Territories Land Office. Save in so far as any such order shall otherwise provide each of the following shall, as from the commencement of this Ordinance, be deemed to have been approved as a New Territories Land Office by order of the Governor in Council duly made under this subsection, namely, the respective offices now known and used as the District Land Office, Kowloon, the District Land Office, Tai Po, and the District Land Office, Ping Shan.
(2) In this Ordinance "appropriate New Territories Land Office" means in relation to any particular land such place approved under subsection (1) in which the register of deeds containing the last entry in respect of such land shall for the time being be kept, or, if there is no register of deeds, the place where the last memorial affecting such land is for the time being kept.
(Replaced, 62 of 1948, s. 2)
11. (1) A memorial of any deed, will or other instrument, or any judgment, order or lis pendens, in respect of or affecting land may be prepared and shall be received at such places in addition to a New Territories Land Office as the Land Officer shall approve:
Provided that the registration of any such memorial shall be deemed to have been effected on the date and at the time that an acknowledgement of the receipt thereof shall be endorsed thereon at the appropriate New Territories Land Office. (Replaced, 62 of 1948, s. 2)
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this or any other enactment, the registration of any deed, will, or other instrument, or any judgment, order or lis pendens, in respect of or affecting land, shall be deemed to have been validly effected if effected at any place approved for such purpose by the Land Officer.
(Replaced, 62 of 1948, s. 2. Amended, 20 of 1948, s. 4; L.N. 94/74; L.N. 370/81 and L.N. 76/82)
12. The High Court and the District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all questions and disputes at law or in equity in connexion with or in any wise arising out of or regarding any land in the New Territories:
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2.N.262 of 1889.
Interpretation of "Land Office”. etc.
Preparation, receipt and registration of memorials.
Jurisdiction in land matters.