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(b) all instruments, without exception, affecting land in the New Territories to which Part 1| of the New Territories Ordinance does not apply.**.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

3rd June, 1958.

W Clerk, of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

(This Nute is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

Due to an oversight the provisions of regulation 2 of the Stapp (N.T.) (Exemption and Modification) Regulations, 1952, granted exemptio frem stamp duty to all instrumente, except conveyances on sale and voluntary dispositions inter vtros, affecting all land in the New Territories, Similarly regulation 3 provided that conveyances on sale and voluntary dispositions inter vivos affecting land in the New Territories, not being land in New Kowloon, should be chargeable with modified rates of stamp duty, However, it was never intended that such exemption or modification should extend to any instrument affecting land to which Part II of the New Territories Ordinance does not apply. Such land is registered with the Land Registry Victoria and all instruments affecting such land have been assessed with the full rate of stamp duty as has always been intended.

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The object of these regulations is to amend the 1952 regulations. so as to regularize the matter. At the same time a validation Bill is being introduced to validate stamp duties collected, from time to time, in accordance with the genuine intention though in apparent contravention of the 1952 regulations.

(Secretariat GR:/3601/47)

DEFENCES (FIRING AREAS) ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 196).

DEFENCES (FIRING AREAS) (SCHEDULE AMENDMENT) Order, 1958.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following Order-

1. This Order may be cited as the Defences (Firing Areas) Citalion. Schedule Amendment) Order, 1958.

1. Part I of the First Schedule to the Defences (Firing Amendment Areas) Ordinance is amended by-

(a) the deletion of Note (2) and (3) and the substitution

therefor of the following-

"(2) All map references are taken from the revised edition (1938) of the 1:20,000 map."; and

(b) the deletion of paragraph (d) and the substitution

therefor of the following-

"(d) Firing Area D

The area included in this firing area comprises the greater part of the Castle Peak Peninsula and is bounded as follows-

By a line running from grid reference 34001890 southwards to grid reference 34441703 thence south- westwards to grid reference a1551145 thence south- eastwards to grid reference 31701120 and grid reference 31961089 thence southwestwards to grid reference 29980g20 thence westwards to grid refer- ence 2890093) thence northwestwards to grid refer- ence 28680942 thence northwards to grid reference 28161140, 28051228 and 27961415 thence eastwards

of First Schedule. (Cap. 196).

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