body, 8 to welfare bodies, and 31 to religious bodies, including 22 to Protestant bodies, 4 to Roman Catholic bodies, 4 to Buddhist bodies and 1 to a Taoist body. 25 licences were in respect of flats or floors in buildings in urban areas; one in respect of flats or floors in buildings in the New Territories; four in respect of lots in urban areas totalling 26,059 sq. ft; and ten in respect of lots in the New Territories totalling 1,806,393 sq. ft. Table VII gives an analysis of the licences granted (a) for the year and (b) for the whole period since the Ordinance was passed, according to the uses stipulated in the licences.
Sales of Private Properties by The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated
59. Any building to which the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance applies and which is required to be demolished under the Buildings Ordinance may be declared by the Director of Public Works to have become subject to the provisions of the Demolished Buildings (Re- development of Sites) Ordinance. When a redevelopment notice is thereafter served under the latter Ordinance, the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance ceases to apply to the building and the tenants become entitled to compensation from the owner in accordance with the provi- sions of the Demolished Buildings (Re-development of Sites) Ordinance. Final awards of compensation are notified in the Gazette and registered in the Land Office, and must be paid within three weeks of the notifica- tion thereof. Upon the registration in the Land Office of a final award the amount of the award and interest accrued thereon constitute, until they are paid, a charge on the property in favour of The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated in trust for the persons entitled to the compensa- tion and interest. During the year The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated as chargee exercised his statutory power of sale in respect of sixteen properties comprising 13,072 sq. ft. at prices totalling $1,103,500.
Sales by Mortgagees
60. For the past three years the Land Office has kept records of advertisements published of sales of land by mortgagees in exercise of their power of sale. The numbers of cases advertised were as follows:
Whole Lots/Sections
Undivided Shares
1965-66 1966-67
1967-68
Urban
New Territories
Urban
New Territories
76
32
71
5
77
24
119
1
76*
16
118
5
* Includes the 16 sales by The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated mentioned in the previous paragraph.
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