CO129-521-8 New Territories Regulation Amendment Ordinance 1930 1-8-1930 - 7-8-1930 — Page 5

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Repeal of Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, s. 24, and substitution

of new section.

Application of Ordinance

No. 34 of 1910,

as amended.

dollars, or an aunnal value exceeding five hundred dollars, unless with the written con- sent of the parties to such question or dispute.

4. Section 24 of the New Territories Regulation Ordi- nance, 1910, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Exclusion

of certain

from

24. Except by way of appeal from the Land Officer, no proceeding relating to land in the proceedings New Territories shall be commenced in the jurisdiction Supreme Court unless the Crown is a party or of Supreme the jurisdiction of the Land Officer in respect Court.

of such proceeding is excluded by or under the provisions of section 20, provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of sec- Ordinance No. 1 of 1883.tion 40 of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, Ordinance 1883, as enneted by section 4 of the Distress No. 8 of 1928.for Reut Amendment Ordinance, 1928.

5. The provisions of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, as amended by this Ordinance, shall apply to all questions and disputes relating to land in the New Territories, including claims to arrears of rent, whether such questions or disputes shall have arisen before the commencement of this Ordinance or shall here- after arise.

Passed the Legislative Council of llong Kong, this 31st day of July, 1930.

N. L. SMITH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.