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ments in writing, and wills and judgments, and other documents are to be recorded and the manner in which they are to be maintained; (e) the correction and amendment of any memorial or
other document:
(f) the keeping of indexes, registers and other records
of the Land Office:
(g) the use of microfilm or any other material pr method for the recording of memorials, deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, and other documents, includ- ing records of the Land Office;
(h) the destruction or disposal of memorials and other documents, including records of the Land Office, recorded on microfilm or an other material;
(0 fixing the hours during which the Land Office or any part thereof shall be open to the public and empowering the Land Officer to vary such hours; regulating admission to the Land Office or any part thereof and the use of any equipment, facilities or material therein by members of the public;
(*) regulating the conduct of persons in the Land
Office:
() enabling any person to be
Land Office and the removal of any person;
refused cotry to the from the Land Office
(m) prescribing anything that is required or permitted
to be prescribed under this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any specified provision of any such regulation shall be an offence and may provide penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 2 years.
29. Where pursuant to regulations made under section 28 the memorial of any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, is recorded on microflim- (a) the microfilm record of the memorial shall be treated for all purposes as the original memorial: and
(6) the registration of any such deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment. registered prior to the date of commencement of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980. shall not be affected.
30. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this respect of New Ordinance, sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 25 and the Schedule to forse immediately before the date of com- mencement of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 and which are set out for convenience in the First Schedule shall continue to apply to the registration of deeds, conveyances, wilts, judgments and other instruments affecting real or immovable property in-
(5% of 1980.)
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(a) any office specified in the Second Schedule; and (b) any place approved under section II of the New
Territories Ordinance,
and reference in any enactment to a section of this Ordinance referred to in this subsection shall be construed accordingly.
(2) The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Second Schedule.".
11. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is deleted and replaced Deletion and by the following-
"FIRST SCHEDULE
PROVISIONS OF THE ORDINANCE IN FORCE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAND REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) Ordinance 1980 WHICH SHALL CONTINUB TO APPLY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SET OUT IN SECTION 30
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replacement of Schedule.
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(1) The Land Office shall be a public office for the registration of deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances and other instruments in writing, and wills and all judgments, by which deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, tenements, or premises in the Colony may be affected, may be entered and registered in the said office in the manner hereinafter directed,
(2) For the purpose of this Ordinance, "judgments" includes judgments and orders both of the High Court and of the District Court.
Пи (1) Subject to this Ordinance, all such deeds, con- veyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or obtained, and registered in pursuance bereof shall have priority one over the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration.
(2) An such deeds. conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, as last aforesaid, which are not registered shall, as against any subsequent bona fide purchaser or mortgages for valuable consideration of the same parcels of ground, tenements, or premises, be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bona fide leases at rack reat for any term not exceeding 3 years.
6. The registration intended by this Ordinance shall be made in manner following, that is to say, a memorial containing the paniculars bereinafter specified shall be delivered into the Land Office, signed, in the case of a deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing, except a will, by some or one of the parties to the original instru ment, or, if such parties are dead or absent from the Colony, then by one or more of the witnesses to such instrument, and in the case of a will by some or one of the devisees or his guardian or trustees, and in the case of a judgment by a party to the action in which such judgment is delivered or by his agent or by a person claiming under or through such party.