ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
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11th July 2007
Report on Ordinance No. 2 of 1902.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to further amend The New Territories Land Court Ordinance, 1900, (No. 18 of 1900),
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
The object of section 2 is to allow a claimant the right of appeal in cases where his claim has been split up into various sections each of less value than $5,000 although the original claim may have been over that amount.
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Section 3 extends to persons liable to pay a perpetual rent charge in money the opportunity of redemption allowed to persons liable to a similar rent charge in grain by section 19.
Section 4 provides for authenticated maps and plans being received as prima facie evidence: a similar provision appears in section 83 of the Straits Settlements Ordinance III of 1893.
Any S. Burling
Attorney General.
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