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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 415.-The following Bills are published for general information :-

[No. 44:-21.11.35.—4.]

A BILL

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Land Officer

may determine

rent on

application of section.

owner.

Principles

to be

observed in

INTITULED

An Ordinance to make provision for the apportionment of

Crown Rents.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance, 1936.

2. In this Ordinance :-

"Crown lease" means any lease granted by the Crown and includes any instrument whereby the term of a Crown lease may have been extended or the provisions thereof varied.

"Determined rent" means the annual sum determined by the Land Officer under this Ordinance as the amount payable by way of Crown rent in respect of any section of a lot.

"Land Office" means the principal Land Office at Victoria and does not include any district land office.

"Lot" means any piece or parcel of ground situate in the Colony of Hong Kong which has been leased by the Crown and has been registered in the Land Office.

"Section" means any portion or division of a lot which has been, or shall be, assigned or in any other manner alienated or retained on such assignment or alienation for the whole of the term or interest created by the Crown lease thereof, and which has been or shall be registered in the Land Office as a Remaining Portion, Section, Sub-section, Part or Portion of a Lot.

"Owner" in relation to a section means the person whose name is registered in the Land Office as that of the owner or holder of a section and this expression includes a registered mortgagee.

3. Upon the application of a section owner and on pay- ment of the prescribed fees the Land Officer may, in his discretion, determine what annual sum shall be payable to the Crown by way of Crown rent in respect of the section owned by such section owner.

4.-(1) The amount of the determined rent of a section shall in so far as is reasonable bear a like proportion to the determining Crown rent of the lot of which it forms part as the proportion which the area of the section bears to the area of the lot :

rent.