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16th Annual Border Liaison Review next week
At the invitation of the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Mr Nicholas Ng, a Guangdong delegation led by the Director of the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, Mr Chao Zhenwei, will visit Hong Kong from January 22 to 24 for the 16th Annual Border Liaison Review, a government spokesman said today (Friday).
The Border Liaison System provides for exchanges of information and control at the border. The meeting will be held at 9 am on Monday (January 22) at 28 Kennedy Road. The two sides will review cross border co-operation and liaison. arrangements over the past year and discuss ways of further strengthening these arrangements.
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Land Registry to rationalise fees
Five amendment regulations, which seek to rationalise the existing fee structure and set out the fees payable for various services by the Land Registry on a cost recovery basis, were gazetted today (Friday).
The five regulations are the Land Registration Fees (Amendment) Regulation 1995, the Land Registration (New Territories) Fees (Repeal) Regulation 1995, the Land Registration Fees (Amendment) Regulation 1995 (Amendment) Regulation 1996, the Land Registration (New Territories) Fees (Repeal) Regulation 1995 (Amendment) Regulation 1996 and the Land Registration (Amendment) Regulation 1996.
A government spokesman said in line with the "user pays" principle, the overall increase would be about 10 per cent.
But not all the fees will be revised upward. The main registration fees will be reduced, the land search fees unchanged and the other fees revised to recover the higher operational costs.
It is intended that the new fees will take effect on April 1, 1996.
The amended fees will be applicable to both the Urban and the New Territories Land Registries which provide similar services.