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A94

Ord. No. 21/77

L.S.

LANDS TRIBUNAL (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 21 OF 1977

I assent.

Short title.

Amendment of section 2. (Cap. 17.)

Addition of new sections 7A, 7B and 7C.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

31st March, 1977.

An Ordinance to amend the Lands Tribunal Ordinance.

[1st April, 1977]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lands Tribunal (Amendment) Ordinance 1977.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after the definition of “qualified in law”, the following definition-

3.

"registrar" means the Registrar of the Lands Tribunal;".

The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 7, the following sections-

"Officers of the Tribunal.

Protection of registrar.

7A. (1) There shall be attached to the Tribunal a registrar and such number of deputy registrars, assistant registrars, bailiffs, clerks, interpreters and other officers as the Governor may consider necessary.

(2) In addition to the powers and duties conferred or imposed by or under this Ordinance or any other enactment, the registrar, any deputy registrar, assistant registrar, bailiff, clerk, interpreter and other officer attached to the Tribunal may exercise such powers and perform such duties, insofar as the same are applicable to the business of the Tribunal, as those respectively exercised or performed by the registrar, deputy registrar, assistant registrar, bailiff, clerk, interpreter or other officer attached to the Supreme Court.

(3) Any act which by or under this Ordinance or any other enactment is required or authorized to be done by the registrar may be performed by a deputy registrar or assistant registrar of the Tribunal and any process of the Tribunal may be executed by any bailiff thereof notwithstanding that it may have been directed personally to some other bailiff.

7B. (1) No action shall be brought against the registrar

for-

(a) any act done or omitted to be done by any bailiff

without directions from the registrar; or

(b) any directions given to any bailiff with regard to the execution or non-execution of process if-

(i) such directions are in accordance with an order from the Tribunal under section 7C; and

(ii) no material fact is wilfully misrepresented or suppressed by the registrar.