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recognize and enforce any Chinese custom or customary right affecting such land.
26. The Land Officer shall, on judgment being given in Registration respect of any land, forthwith enter a memorandum of such judgment. judgment in the land register. No fee shall be payable for such entry.
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manager
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27. Whenever any land is held from the Crown under lease Registration or other grant, agreement or licence in the name of a clan, family or t'ong, such clan, family or t'ong shall appoint a manager to represent it. Every such appointment shall be reported at the appropriate office; and the Land Officer on receiving such proof as he may require of such appointment shall, if he approves thereof, register the name of the said manager who shall, after giving such notices as may be prescribed, have full power to dispose of or in any way deal with the said land as if he 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 t'ong, which is executed or signed by the registered manager thereof in the presence of the Land Officer and is attested by him, shall be as effectual for all purposes as if it had been executed or signed by all the members of the said clan, family or t'ong. The Land Officer may on good cause shown cancel the appointment of any manager and select and register a new manager in his place. If the members of any clan, family or t'ong holding land do not within three months after the acquisition of the land make and prove the appointment of a manager, or within three months after any change of manager prove the appointment of a new manager, it shall be lawful for the Crown to re-enter upon the land held by such clan, family or t'ong, which shall thereupon become forfeited. Such re-entry shall be effected by the registration of a memorandum thereof in the appropriate office.
clans from
28. Any clan, family or t'ong owning land on the 28th day Exemption of October, 1910, in respect of which a manager has been duly of certain 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 purposes or such other uses the Companies Ordinance, 1932.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION. No. 34 of 1910.
1173
recognize and enforce any Chinese custom or customary right affecting such land.
26. The Land Officer shall, on judgment being given in Registration respect of any land, forthwith enter a memorandum of such of judgment. judgment in the land register. No fee shall be payable for such entry.
of
manager
*
27. Whenever any land is held from the Crown under lease Registration or other grant, agreement or licence in the name of a clan, of ong, family or t'ong, such clan, family or t'ong shall appoint a etc. manager to represent it. Every such appointment shall be reported at the appropriate office; and the Land Officer on receiving such proof as he may require of such appointment shall, if he approves thereof, register the name of the said manager who shall, after giving such notices as may be pre- scribed, have full power to dispose of or in any way deal with the said land as if he 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 ali covenants and conditions in respect of the said land. Every instrument relating to land held by a clan, family or t'ong, which is executed or signed by the registered 'manager thereof in the presence of the Land Officer and is attested by him, shall be as effectual for all purposes as if it had been executed or signed by all the members of the said clan, family or t'ong. The Land Officer may on good cause shown cancel the appoint- ment of any manager and select and register a new manager in his place. If the members of any clan, family or t'ong holding land do not within three months after the acquisition of the land make and prove the appointment of a manager, or within three months after any change of manager prove the appoint- ment of a new manager, it shall be lawful for the Crown to re-enter upon the land held by such clan, family or t'ong, which shall thereupon become forfeited. Such re-entry shall be effected by the registration of a memorandum thereof in the appropriate office.
clans from
28. Any clan, family or t'ong owning land on the 28th day Exemption of October, 1910, in respect of which a manager has been duly of certain registered under this Ordinance, shall not, so long as such land the Com- is certified by the Land Officer as being used for agricultural, panies
Ordinance, religious, educational or charitable purposes or such other uses 1932.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
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