THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MAY, 1905.
such appointment, shall, if he approves thereof, register the name of the said Manager or Managers; the said Manager or Managers thereupon shall have full power to dispose of or in any way deal with the said land as if he or they were sole owner thereof, subject to the consent of the Land Officer, and shall be personally liable for the payment of all rents and charges and for the observance of all covenants and conditions in respect of the said land. Every instrument relating to land held by a clan, family or tong, which is exccnted or signed by the registered Mannger or Managers thereof in the presence of the Land Officer and is attested by bim, shall be as effectual for all pur- poses as if it had been executed or signed by all the mem- bers of the said elau, family or tong. The Land Officer may on good canse shewn cancel the appointment of any Manager and select and register a new Manager in his place. If the members of any clan, family or tong holding land shall not within three months after the coming into operation of this Ordinance, or after the acquisition of the land if acquired after the coming into operation of this Ordinance, make and prove the appointment of such Mana- ger or Managers as aforesaid, or within three months after any change of Manager prove the same as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Crown to re-enter upon the land held by such clan, family or tong, which shall thereupon become forfeited to the Crown. Such re-entry shall be effected by the registration of a memorandum thereof in the appropriate office.
clans from
13. Any clan, family or tong owning land in the New Exemption Territories at the date of the coming into operation of this of certain Ordinance iu respect of which a Manager shall have been the Com- duly registered under this Ordinance, shall not, so long as panies' Ordi- such land is certified by the Land Officer as being used nances. for agricultural or religious or charitable purposes or for dwelling houses occupied by bonâ fide members of the clan, family or tong, be required to be registered under the Companies' Ordinances, although such clan, family or tong may consist of more than 20 members.
to deceased
14. In the event of the death of any person in whose Registration name any land is registered otherwise than as a Manager, of successor if no grant of Probate or Administration of the estate of land-holder the deceased is made by the Supreme Court within three where no months after such death (or, if the death occurred before Probate the commencement of this Ordinance, within three months granted. after such commencement) the Land Officer, on ascertaining the name of the person who is entitled to such land in succession to the deceased person (hereinafter described as the successor "), shall register the name of the successor, and upon such registration being effected the said land shall vest in the successor for all the estate and interest of the deceased person therein, or for such estate and interest as shall be entered on the Register by the Land Officer against the entry of the name of the successor. On the registration of a successor the fees to be fixed by regulations hereafter shall be paid to the Land Officer by the successor, but no Probate Fees or Probate Duties shall be payable. The registered successor shall be liable to the debts of the deceased in the same manner and to the same extent as if a grant of Probate or Administration had been made to him. This section shall apply in the case of a death whether occurring before or after the commencement of this Ordinance. Provided always that if a grant of Probate or Administration of the estate of the deceased shall be made by the Supreme Court within the period above specified the grantee therein named shall be registered as the successor and the fees in this section prescribed shall not be payable.
Trustees for minors.
15. Whenever any land is vested in a minor it shall be Power to lawful for the Land Officer to appoint some fit person or appoint persons to be a Trustee or Trustees thereof for such minor during his minority, and to remove any such Trustee and to appoint any new Tru-toe. Every such appointment shall be registered by the Land Officer in the appropriate office, and upon registration the land the subject of the Trust shall vest in the registered Trustee for all the estate and interest of the minor therein, and upon registration of the removal of any Trustee the land shall divest from the Trustee so removed, and vest in the continuing Trustees or any newly registered Trustee as the case may be.
The Land Officer before registering a Trustee may require him to give security in such manner and to
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