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Further power to grant relief.

Service of Notices

ofc.

Regulations.

Offences.

awarded by such decision; or

(iii) make such other order as he may deem

just.

(b) the decision of the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs

Officer shall be final and conclusive.

8. Notwithstanding anything contained in this

Proclamation, it shall be lawful for the Deputy

Chief Civil Affairs Officer, in his absolute

discretion, by order (which order need not be

published in the Gazette) to grant relief from the

liability to pay all or any part of any arrears of

Crown rent or of the Crown rent accruing due during

the period of military administration in respect of

all or any lands held under lease from the Crown in

any district, area or village, or any particular

land or class of lands in any place.

9. Any notice or other document may be served by

delivering the same to the owner of the land to

which the same relates or to his agent or by leaving

the same for such owner or agent with some person

at or by sending the same by post to his last known

place of abode or business, or, if such owner or

his agent cannot readily be found, then by leaving

such notice or other document or a copy the re of on

the land to which the same relates or by sending it

to such land through the post.

10. The Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer may make

regulations for the better carrying out of the

provisions of this Proclamation.

11. Every person who :

(a) refuses or neglects to comply with any require-

ment made under the provisions of this

Proclamation; or

(b) knowingly makes any statement which is false

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Application to the

New Territories.

Ordinance No.1. of 1844,

Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, s.16.

in any material particular or from which

there is any material omission in any

application made under the provisions of

this Proclamation; or

(c) destroys or parts with, or mutilates,

alters or tampers with any document whatso-

ever material to the purposes of this

Proclamation, or knowingly produces any

document so mutilated, altered or tempered

with;

shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for

any term not exceeding six months or to a fine not

exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both such

imprisonment and fine.

12. In their application to the New Territories,

other than lands the rein in respect of which the

registers under the provisions of the Land

Registration Ordinance, 1844, are or were held in

the Land Office at the Courts of Justice, at

Victoria, the provisions of this Proclamation shall

be subject to the following modifications

(1) The words "Land Office" mean the appropriate

district land office for the Northern and

Southern Districts respectively established

under the provisions of section 16 of the

New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910.

(2) "Collector" means the officer of the Civil

Affairs Service charged with the conduct of

Civil affairs under the military administra-

tion in the Northern or Southern District, as

the case may be, and includes any Deputy or

Assistant officer.

(3) In section 3 the words "the principal office

of the appropriate Civil Affairs Officer, or

such other place or places as may be appointed

by him" shall be substituted for the words

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