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34 of 1948.
17 of 1950.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation).
CHAPTER 256.
LAND TRANSACTIONS (ENEMY OCCUPATION).
To give effect to voluntary transactions affecting land during the Japanese occupation.
[16th July, 1948.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance—
“assignor” and “assignee” mean and include respectively the persons purporting to dispose of or acquire the property to which an instrument relates and include the executors, administrators or assigns of an assignor or assignee, as the case may be, and in the case of an assignor or assignee who disposed of or acquired any property as trustees of any trust, the persons from time to time lawfully acting as trustees of such trust; “green ink entries” means the entries made in green ink in the Land Office registers recording particulars of transactions registered in the Japanese registers and identified in the Land Office registers by the initials of the Land Officer; “Japanese assignment” means an instrument registered or recorded in the Japanese registers purporting to relate to a disposition of any land, house or building otherwise than by way of mortgage or reassignment; “Japanese house registration office” means the office in which during the Japanese occupation were kept registers or records of houses and buildings and documents in relation thereto;
“Japanese occupation” means the period from the 25th day of December, 1941, to the 1st day of September, 1945; “Japanese registers” means the registers kept by the Japanese house registration office and now lodged in the Land Office in which were recorded particulars of houses and buildings and transactions in connexion therewith;
“Land Office registers” means the volumes kept in the Land Office at Victoria, wherein are entered, under headings descriptive of the properties to which the
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CAP. 256]
34 of 1948.
17 of 1950.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation).
CHAPTER 256.
LAND TRANSACTIONS (ENEMY OCCUPATION).
To give effect to voluntary transactions affecting land
during the Japanese occupation.
[16th July, 1948.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Trans- actions (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance--
"assignor" and "assignee" mean and include respectively the persons purporting to dispose of or acquire the property to which an instrument relates and include the executors, administrators or assigns of an assignor or assignee, as the case may be, and in the case of an assignor or assignee who disposed of or acquired any property as trustees of any trust, the persons from time to time lawfully acting as trustees of such trust; "green ink entries" means the entries made in green ink in the Land Office registers recording particulars of transactions registered in the Japanese registers and identified in the Land Office registers by the initials of the Land Officer; "Japanese assignment" means an instrument registered or recorded in the Japanese registers purporting to relate to a disposition of any land, house or building other- wise than by way of mortgage or reassignment; "Japanese house registration office" means the office in which during the Japanese occupation were kept registers or records of houses and buildings and docu- ments in relation thereto;
"Japanese occupation" means the period from the 25th day of December, 1941, to the 1st day of September, 1945; "Japanese registers" means the registers kept by the Japanese house registration office and now lodged in the Land Office in which were recorded particulars of houses and buildings and transactions in connexion therewith;
"Land Office registers" means the volumes kept in the Land Office at Victoria, wherein are entered, under headings descriptive of the properties to which the
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