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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong 16th October,
1931.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No
28
of 1931.
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an
Ordinance to amend the Land Registration Ordinance, 1844,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not
contrary to the Governor's instructions.
2.
Section 2 of this Ordinance substitutes two sub-sections
for section 26 (2) of the principal Ordinance, the meaning of
which was obscure and appeared to limit the Land Officer's
valuations to property worth under $5,000, with no
provision for valuations of property worth more than that
amount. Thus in the case of a Partition, Exchange, Gift
inter vivos or Assignment by a Trustee to a Cestuique trust
(wherein no consideration money is stated) there has been,
in most cases, no proper statutory method of determining
the appropriate fee.
3.
Section 3 of this Ordinance makes certain additions
to the fees set out in the Second Schedule to the principal
Ordinance.
4.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His
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