Explanatory Note,
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
The Land Office (New Territories) Fees Rules are revoked and replaced by these Regulations which introduce fees for the registration of instro- ments in the District Land Offices similar to those prescribed by the Land Registration Fees Regulations for the registration of instruments in the Land Office, Victoria.
In the case of any deed or Instrument affecting land in more than one New Territories district, regulation 202) provides that where the full registration fee has been paid at one District Land Office the fee payable on the registration of the deed or instrument in any other District Land Office shall be the fee prescribed in the Schedule or fifteen dollars, which- ever is the less.
In the case of a mortgage or charge affecting land in both the urban area and the New Territories, regulation 2(3) provides that where a full registration fee has been paid in the urban area the fee chargeable in any District Land Office In which registration is effected shall be the fee prescribed in the Schedule or fifteen dolları, whichever is the less. This provision also applies in the case of a reassignment, discharge, release, transfer or certificate of satisfaction of a mortgage or charge,
The fees for the registration of conveyances on sale remain the same, except that a new step has been added where the consideration exceeds $500,000.
(Secretariat FIN 1/3601/47)
LAND REGISTRATION ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 128).
LAND REGISTRATION FEES (AMENDMENT)
REGULATIONS 1967.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 27 of the Land Registration Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Land Registration Citation. Fees (Amendment) Regulations 1967.
2.
Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following—
"Fecs payable. 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.
Schedunc.
C. 93
(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 Registra- tion (New Territories) Fees Regulations 1967, the fee for registering such deed or instrument in the Land Office in Victoria shall be the fee set forth in be Schedule or üfteen dollars, whichever is the “Tega
Revocation
and replace- ment of regulation 2.
(Cap. 12. sab. let.)
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
9th May 1967.
Clerk of Colincits.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, bur la intended to Indicate their general purport).
These regulations amend the Land Registration Fees Regulations so as to provide that the fee payable on the registration in the Land Office in Victoria of a mortgage or à charge which affects land in the New Territories as well as land in the urban areas shall, if the mortgage or charge has