CO129-521-8 New Territories Regulation Amendment Ordinance 1930 1-8-1930 - 7-8-1930 — Page 4

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HONG KONG.

No. 6 of 1930.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L. S.

Governor.

1st August, 1930.

An Ordinance to amend the New Territories

Regulation Ordinance, 1910.

[1st August, 1930.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the New Territories Short title. Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1930.

2. Section 4 of the New Territories Regulation Ordi- Amendment uance, 1910, is amended by the repeal of the second para- of Ordinance

No. 34 of graph thereof.

1910, s. 4.

3. Section 20 of the New Territories Regulation Ordi- Amendment nance, 1910, is amended by the repeal of the proviso of Ordinance contained in lines 12 to 19 thereof (both inclusive) and by No. 34 of the insertion of the following proviso immediately after 1910, s. 20. the word "judgment" in line 7 thereof :--

Provided as follows:-

(a) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any question or dispute to which the Crown is a party unless the Governor consents in writing to his so doing;

(b) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any claim to arrears of rent if the monthly value of the rent exceeds five hundred dollars, or if the total claim exceeds one thousand five hundred dollars;

(c) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any claim to arrears of rent where the title of the plaintiff is in his opinion disputed bona fide, unless either (i) the defendant consents in writing to his so doing or (i) he would have had jurisdiction under paragraph (d) of this proviso if the claim, instead of being a claim to arrears of rent, had been a claim in respect of the land out of which the rent in question issues or is alleged to issue;

(d) the Land Officer shall not have power to decide any question or dispute (other than a claim to arrears of rent) in respect of any land having a capital value exceeding five thousand