SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, JULY 16, 1948.
HỒNG KÔNG
No. 34 OF 1948.
L.S.
I assent.
A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.
15th July, 1948.
An Ordinance to give effect to voluntary transactions affecting
land during the Japanese occupation.
[15th July, 1948.]
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BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Transactions Short title. (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance, 1948.
2. In this Ordinance where the context permits-
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(a) Japanese occupation means the period from the 25th day of December, 1941, to the first day of September, 1945;
(b) "Japanese House Registration Office " means the office in which during the Japanese occupation were kept registers or records of houses and buildings and documents in relation thereto;
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(c) "Japanese Registers means the registers kept by the Japanese House Registration Office and now lodged in the Land Office in which were recorded particulars of houses and buildings and transactions in connection therewith;
(d) "Land Office Registers" means the volumes kept in the Land Office at the Courts of Justice, Victoria, wherein are entered, under headings descriptive of the properties to which the same relate, particulars of transactions and matters affecting leased Crown lands;
(e) green ink entries " means the entries made in green ink in the Land Office Registers recording particulars of trans- actions registered in the Japanese Registers and identified in the Land Office Registers by the initials of the Land Officer;
(f) Japanese assignment means an instrument registered or recorded in the Japanese Registers purporting to relate to a disposition of any land, house or building otherwise than by way of mortgage or re-assignment;
Interpretation.
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