Where any error is discovered in any instrument or memorial, the instru- ment is 'stopped' and returned for correction to the solicitors certifying the memorial. Of the 70,793 instruments registered in 1970-71, 20,678 (28%) were 'stopped' for the correction of a total of 35,359 errors, which fell into the following categories:
Omission of dates/Memorial Nos./Chinese characters Incorrect description of parcels
Incorrect spelling of words/typing errors
Stopped because of errors found in connected instrument
Incorrect/insufficient description of parties
Authentication of amendments/deletions/additions required Incorrect/insufficient registration fee
Incorrect/insufficient description of Crown Rent Incorrect/insufficient information on partition
Incorrect/insufficient stamp duty
Incorrect/insufficient description of plan
Incorrect/insufficient execution
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8,309
7,865
7,594
3,283
2,829
2,224
706
387
...
383
368
364
346
269
251
181
35,359
Suggestion by Land Office for improvement of instrument Incorrect/insufficient description of consideration
Land Officer's consent required for registration of instrument...
Total ...
Searches
28. An essential preliminary to every land transaction is a search in the land registers to ascertain who is registered as the owner of the property and what, if any, incumbrances are registered against it. Under the Land Registration Fees Regulations, a fee of $1 is payable for each record produced, but where more than one hundred records relating to the same subdivided building are produced at the same time the fee is $100. To facilitate the operation of this system, books of one hundred $1 search tickets are available for purchase by solicitors, whose clerks surrender one ticket for each record produced.
29. During the year 103,031 searches were made by members of the public, 23,267 (29.2%) more than the previous year's total, which suggests that there are many more land transactions in the pipeline. The vast majority of these searches were made by solicitors' clerks, who are familiar with the Land Office system of keeping the registers. In addi- tion, 214,126 searches were made for Government departments either by their own or by the Land Office staff.
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