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[接上页] (i) fixing the hours during which the Land Registry or any part thereof shall be open to the public and empowering the Land Registrar to vary such hours; (j) regulating admission to the Land Registry or any part thereof and the use of any equipment, facilities or material therein by members of the public; (k) regulating the conduct of persons in the Land Registry; (l) enabling any person to be refused entry to the Land Registrar and the removal from the Land Registry of any person; (m) prescribing anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Ordinance.(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any specified provision of any such regulation shall be an offence and may provide penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of $10000 and imprisonment for 2 years. (Added 56 of 1980 s. 10. Amended 8 of 1993 ss. 2 & 3) Cap 128 s 29 Effect of memorials recorded on microfilm Where pursuant to regulations made under section 28 the memorial of any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or judgment, is recorded on microfilm- (a) the microfilm record of the memorial shall be treated for all purposes as the original memorial; and (b) the registration of any such deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or judgment, registered prior to the date of commencement* of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 (56 of 1980), shall not be affected. (Added 56 of 1980 s. 10. Amended 56 of 1992 s. 15)_________________________________________________________________________________ Note: * Date of commencement-8 June 1981. Cap 128 s 29A Effect of register cards recorded on microfilm or memorials recorded by the imaging method, etc. Where pursuant to regulations made under section 28- (a) any register card is recorded on microfilm, the microfilm record of the register card shall be treated for all purposes as the original register card; (b) the memorial of any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or judgment, is recorded by the imaging method, the image record of the memorial shall without prejudice to section 29(a) be treated for all purposes as the original memorial; and (c) the microfilm record of the memorial of any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or judgment, is recorded by the imaging method, the image record of the microfilm record of the memorial shall without prejudice to section 29(a) be treated for all purposes as the original memorial. (Added 104 of 1995 s. 7) Cap 128 s 30 Saving in respect of New Territories Land Offices, etc. Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 61 of 1999 s. 3 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance, sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 25 and the Schedule in force immediately before the date of commencement* of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 (56 of 1980) and which are set out for convenience in the First Schedule shall continue to apply to the registration of deeds, conveyances, judgments and other instruments affecting real or immovable property in- (Amended 56 of 1992 s. 15) (a) any office specified in the Second Schedule; and (b) any place approved under section 11 of the New Territories Ordinance (Cap 97),and a reference in any enactment to a section of this Ordinance referred to in this subsection shall be construed accordingly. (1A) As from the commencement of section 14 of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1992 (56 of 1992), the provisions referred to in subsection (1) cease to apply, in any circumstances, to the registration of wills and the First Schedule has been amended accordingly. (Added 56 of 1992 s. 14) (1B) The First Schedule has been amended by the Adaptation of Laws (Courts and Tribunals) Ordinance (25 of 1998) and the Adaptation of Laws (No. 24) Ordinance 1999 (61 of 1999) to bring them into conformity with the Basic Law and with the status of Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. (Added 61 of 1999 s. 3) (2) The Land Registrar may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Second Schedule. (Amended 56 of 1992 s. 14; 8 of 1993 s. 3) (Added 56 of 1980 s. 10)_________________________________________________________________________________ Note: * Date of commencement-8 June 1981. Cap 128 s 31 Saving in respect of deposit of deeds, etc., in Land Registry for safe custody Notwithstanding the repeal of section 22 by section 3 of the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 1995 (104 of 1995), where immediately before the commencement of that Ordinance, any person has, pursuant to that repealed section, deposited in the Land Registry for safe custody any deed, conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument in writing whatsoever, the Land Registrar shall continue to- (a) keep and maintain the book which contains an accurate alphabetical index having reference as well to the name of the parties to each such deed or instrument as to the person depositing the same; and |