1986 Ed.]
Land Registration Fees Regulations
[CAP. 128
LAND REGISTRATION FEES REGULATIONS
B1
[Subsidiary]
G.N.A. 104/57.
L.N. 31/63.
L.N. 77/67.
1.
(Cap. 128, section 27)
[1 April 1958.]
These regulations may be cited as the Land Registration Fees Regulations.
1A. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"computer printout" has the meaning assigned by regulation 2 of the Land Registration Regulations;
"instrument" includes any deed, conveyance, will, judgment or other instrument in writing.
2. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the fees set forth in the Schedule shall be taken in the Land Office in Victoria for the matters therein mentioned.
(2) Where any mortgage or charge, or any reassignment, discharge, release, transfer or certificate of satisfaction of any mortgage or charge, which is tendered for registration in the Land Office in Victoria relates to land to which Part II of the New Territories Ordinance applies as well as to other property and has been registered in any District Land Office on payment of the registration fee prescribed in the Land Registration (New Territories) Fees Regulations, the fee for registering such instrument in the Land Office in Victoria shall be the fee set forth in the Schedule or $60, whichever is the less.
(3) A fee to be taken pursuant to this regulation in respect of any instrument delivered or redelivered for registration shall be paid by the person for whose benefit or on whose behalf the instrument is so delivered or redelivered.
3. The Land Officer may waive any fee required to be taken in respect of any of the matters mentioned in the Schedule if he is satisfied that the fee would, if charged, be paid out of the public funds of Hong Kong.
4.
The Land Officer shall waive the fee required to be taken-
(a) under item 10(1A) of the Schedule for supplying a photocopy of any register card; or
(b) under item 15 of the Schedule,
if he is satisfied that information contained on the card or computer printout, as the case may be, is required in connection with a proposed incorporation of owners under the Multi-storey Buildings (Owners Incorporation) Ordinance.
L.N. 238/74.
L.N. 256/78. L.N. 4/80.
56 of 1980. L.N. 139/81. 31 of 1981. L.N. 108/85. L.N. 248/86.
Citation.
Interpretation. L.N. 139/81 L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 128. sub. leg.)
Fees payable.
Schedule.
(Cap. 97.)
(Cap. 128. sub. leg.)
L.N. 238/74. L.N. 139/81.
L.N. 139/81.
Power to grant exemption.
56 of 1980. s. 12.
Duty to grant exemption. L.N. 248/86.
(Cap. 344.)