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(Revocation.)

(CA. 117, muh dew.>

4. The Stamp (New Territories) (Exemption and Modifica- tion) Regulations are revoked.

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Instrument,

Conveyance on sale

Voluntary disposition inter vivos (excluding a convey. ance or transfer of land operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos)

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

9th May 1967.

SCHEDULE.

Modified Dury.

(a) Where the amount or value of the con- sideration does not exceed $2,000, no stamp duty and no excess stamp duty shall be chargeable.

(b) Where the amount or value of the com- sideration exceeds $2,000 but does pol cxceed $10,000, no excess stamp duty shall be chargeable.

(a) Where the value of the land does not exceed $2,000, no stamp duty shall be chargeable.

(6) Where the value of the land exceeds

$2,000 but does not gæread-$5,000, $1 for every $100 or part there of the value of fie land conveyed, or trans- ferred.

Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note,

(This Note is not part of the regulations, bur is intended ta indicate their general purport).

The Land Office (New Territories) Fees Rules have been used as a means of charging in the New Territories the ad valorem rates of daty on certain documents that would but for the Stamp (New Territories) (Exemption and Modification) Regulations have been charged under the Stamp Ordinance.

2. The Stamp (New Territories) (Exemption and Modification) Regulations are revoked and replaced by these Regulations so that mi instruments affecting land in the New Territories are now liable to the stamp duty chargeable under the Stamp Ordinance, subject, in the case of conveyances on sale, voluntary dispositions inter vivos and leases where the consideration consists of or includes a premium or fine, to the modifications set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

3. The Land Office (New Territories) Fees Rules have been revoked by the Land Registration (New Territories) Fees Regulations 1967 and new registration fees, similar to those charged in the Land Office in Victoris in respect of urban area land, prescribed.

(Secretariat FIN 1/3601/47)

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 241).

EMERGENCY (COURTS) REGULATIONS 1967.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Emergency (Courts) Regulations 1967.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"court" means the Supreme Court, any District Court and any

magistrate's court.

3. (1) Any District Judge or magistrate may direct that, Have as provided in paragraph (2) or with the permission of a police officer, no person shall be in the court in which such District Judge or magistrate sits or in the buikding, or within the curtilage of the building, in which that court sits.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is required to be in such court or building by virtue of his office or an order of a court or who is otherwise required to be in such court or building or to one person bona fide representing a newspaper or news agcocy.

4. (1) The Chief Justice muy direct that, save as provided in paragraph (2) or with the permission of a police officer, no person shall be in any court or in any building, or within the curtilage of any building, in which any court sits.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is required to be in a court or any such building by virtue of his office or an order of a court or who is otherwise required to be in a court or any such building or to one person representing a newspaper or news agency.

5. Any person who contravenes any direction of a District Judge or magistrate under paragraph (1) of regulation 3 or of the Chief Justice under paragraph (1) of regulation 4 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years and may be forcibly removed by any police officer from the court or building or the curtilage of the building, as the case may be.

Citatio

Interpretation.

Power of District Judge or magistrate to exclude

public from

court

Power of Chief Justice 10 exclude public from all courts.

Offences and penalties.