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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1905.
Exemption
of certain clans from the Com- panies' Ordi-
mances.
Registration of successor to decensed land-holder where no Probate granted.
Power to appoint Trustees for minors,
Certification
14. Any clan, family or tong owning land in the New Territories at the date of the coming into operation of this Ordinance in respect of which a Manager shall have been duly registered under this Ordinance, shall not, so long as such land is certified by the Land Officer as being used for agricultural, religious, educational, or charitable pur- poses, or such other uses of a similar nature as are re- cognised by established local custom, or for dwelling houses occupied by bonâ fide members of the clan, family or tong he required to be registered under the Companies' Ordin- ances, although such elan, family or tong may consist of more than 20 members.
15. In the event of the death of any person in whose name any land is registered otherwise than as a Manager, if no grant of Probate or Administration of the estate of the deceased is made by the Supreme Court within three mouths after such death (or, if the death occurred before the commencement of this Ordinance, within three months 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 deccased 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 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.
16. Whenever any land is vested in a minor it shall be lawful for the Land Officer to appoint some fit person or 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 Trustec. 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 such amount as the Land Officer may think fit for the dne execution of the Trust. With the consent of the Land Officer a Trustee may buy, sell, mortgage, lease or other- wise deal with or dispose of any property to the like extent as if he were the beneficial owner thereof.
17 For the purposes of this Ordinance it shall not be of Memorials, necessary for a memorial of any deed, will or other instru- ment to be verified upon oath, but every memorial shall in lieu thereof be certified by the Land Officer as correct.
Land Offeer
18. It shall not be necessary for the Land Officer to not required keep an index of names of the several parties to deeds and to keep
other instruments, or of the devisors or devisees in the case index.
of wills, or of the plaintiffs or defendants in the ease of judgments.
Land Oficer to be Comm- misione
to take
acknow- ledgments.
General words,
19. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Land Officer and every Assistant Land Officer shall be deemed to be a duly appointed Commissioner for taking acknowledgments of married women under the Married Women (Disposition of Property) Ordinance. 1885.
20.--(1.) A Conveyance shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, hed- ges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties,
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