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Schedule

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Fortu No. 3.

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you at 8% on that sum from the lat September, 1945, until the Slot December, 1947.

Section 7 provides that the Governor in Council, with or without a recommendation from a Board of Arbitratora, has power to amend the graded value assigned or the ares stated, but section 5 provides that the onus is on you to prove the necessity for any such amendment; moreover, in considering any application the Governor in Council has power to make amendments which may increase or decrease the compensation payable.

Land Officer] Assistant Land Officer,

Sir,

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FORM No. 3.

New Territories.

NOTIFICATION OF REFUSAL TO FORMER OWNER.

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HONG KONG

134 or 1948.

I assent

Mhamkum

Guvérker.

15th July, 1948.

An Ordinance to give effect to voluntary transactions affecting

land during the Japanese occupation.

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AIRFIELD (KAI TAK) ExtenSION AND REVERSION ORDINANCE, 1948.

I have the honour to refer to your claim dated....

which has been examined but is refused mu the following grounds:—

Section 7 of the Ordinance provides that the Governor in Council, with or without a recommendation from a Board of Arbitrators, has power to consider your objection if you are not satisfied with this refusal, but you will understand that it will be your responsibility in that event to prove your claim.

Land Officer/Assistant Land Officer,

New Territories.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of July, 1948.

Alertuin Wood

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

[16th July, 1948.j

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- (2x)

Japanese occupation means the period from the 25th day of December, 1941, to the first day of September, 1945;

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(6) Japanese House Registration Office" means the office in which during the Japanese occupation were kept rogisters 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;

(4) "Land Office Registers means the volumes kept in the Land Office at the Courts of Justice, Victoria, wherein ore entered, ander beadings descriptive of the properties to which the same relate, particulars of transactions and matters affecting leased Crown lands;

Interpretation.