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FIRST COLUMN.

28. Stamp Ordinance,

1921.

(No. 8 of 1921.) -Could.

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Regulations enforced by the Japanese in Hong Kong between the 26th day of November, 1942 and the 1st day of Sep- tember, 1945, shall be wholly exempt from duty."

(2) Section 35A. (3) The Ordinance is amended by the addition

after section 35 of the following

Instru- umerate confrma- tury of Тарелева occupation transac- tions.

or

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35A. (1) Wherever the Land Officer certifies that in his opinion an assignment or re-assignment has been made by the appropriate parties solely for the purpose of carrying into effect a transaction or a series of transactions in respect whereof an instrument or a series of instruments has been registered recorded in the Japanese House Registration Office and of effectuating by an assignment or re-assignment in the form in common use in the Colony the transaction or series of transactions which to him appears to have been intended to be effected by such instru- ment or series of instruments, then such assignment or re-assignment shall be exempt from ad valorem duty but shall be stamped in accordance with Head *7 of the Schedule hereto.

(2) For the purpose of this section the Japanese House Registration Office shall mean the office in which during the Japanese occupation were kept registers or records of houses and buildings and documents in relation thereto.

(3) The certificate under sub- section (1) shall be endorsed upon the instrument in question and a Land Office fee of ten dollars shall be payable therefor. The Collector on production of the certificate under subsection (1) and of the instrument in question shall

FIRST COLUMN.

28. Stamp Ordinance,

1921. (No. 8 of 1921.) -Contd.

29. Judgments

(Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921. (No. 32 of 1921.) (1) Section 2.

(2) Section 3.

(3) Section 5.

30. Wild Birds

Ordinance, 1922. (No. 15 of 1922.} Section 12.

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endorse thereon a certificate to the effect that the same is under this section exempt from ad valorem duty.

(4) This section shall not apply

to any instrument executed in contraven- tion of the Moratorium Proclamation of the British Military Administration dated the 13th day of September, 1945."

(1) Section 2 is amended by the deletion in the first and second lines of subsection (2) of the words "Subject to any rules that may be made by the Chief Justice under section 5." and the substitution therefor of the following-

"*Subject to rules of court,”.

(2) Section 3 is amended by the deletion in the first and second lines of subsection (4) of the words "The rules which it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make under section 3 shall provide" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"Rules of court shall provide-".

(3) Section 5 is repealed and replaced by the

following

"Rules of

Court.

10 & 11

Goo. 5. c.1, 11.

5.

Provision may be made by rules of court under section 32 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873. for regulating the practice and procedure, (including scales of fees and evidence), in respect of proceedings of any kind under this Ordinance."

Section 12 is amended by the deletion in the last line of section 13 of the words "fifty