LAND REGISTRATION FEES REGULATIONS

LAND REGISTRATION FEES REGULATIONS

LAND REGISTRATION FEES REGULATIONS

(Cap. 128, section 27)

[1 April 1958.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Land Registration Fees
Regulations.

1A. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

'computer printout' has the meaning assigned by regulation 2 of the Land
Registration Regulations;

'instrument' includes any deed, conveyance, will, judgment or other instrument
in writing.

2. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the fees set forth in the Schedule shall be
taken in the Land Office in Victoria for the matters therein mentioned.

(2) Where any mortgage or charge, or any reassignment, discharge, release,
transfer or certificate of satisfaction of any mortgage or charge, which is
tendered for registration in the Land Office in Victoria relates to land to which
Part 11 of the New Territories Ordinance applies as well as to other property
and has been registered in any District Land Office on payment of the
registration fee prescribed in the Land Registration (New Territories) Fees
Regulations, the fee for registering such instrument in the Land Office in
Victoria shall be the fee set forth in the Schedule or $60, whichever is the less.

(3) A fee to be taken pursuant to this regulation in respect of any
instrument delivered or redelivered for registration shall be paid by the person
for whose benefit or on whose behalf the instrument is so delivered or
redelivered.

3. The Land Officer may waive any fee required to be taken in respect of
any of the matters mentioned in the Schedule if he is satisfied that the fee
would, if charged, be paid out of the public funds of Hong Kong.

4. The Land Officer shall waive the fee required to be taken under

(a)item 10(1A) of the Schedule for supplying a photocopy of any
register card; or

(b) item 15 of the Schedule,

if he is satisfied that information contained on the card or computer printout, as
the case may be, is required in connexion with a proposed incorporation of
owners under the Multi-storey Buildings (Owners Incorporation) Ordinance.





SCHEDULE [reg. 2.1

1 Registration of any instrument (except as hereinafter specifically
mentioned) whereby the legal or equitable estate in any property, or in any share
or interest in any property, is assigned, conveyed, settled, partitioned, mortgaged,
charged, reassigned, discharged, released or otherwise transferred

Where the amount or value of the consideration or value of the property or
share or interest affected

(a) does not exceed S 100,000 ........... S 60;

(b) exceeds $100,000 but does not exceed $750,000 $250;

(c) exceeds $750,000 .................... 5500:

Provided that the maximum fee payable for any instrument exempted
from stamp duty under section 46 of the Stamp Duty Ordinance shall be ... 5
60.

2. Registration of any agreement for sale and purchase or for

mortgage ............................................................... S 60.

3. Registration of any lease, agreement for a lease, or renewal or

surrender of a lease ........................ ........
S 60.

4. Registration of any will, probate, letters of administration, deed of
appointment of new trustees, lis pendens, writ of foreign attachment, judgment,
decree, prohibitory order, or other order of Court certificate of satisfaction of a
judgment or of dissolution of a writ of foreign attachment, or any other
instrument whatsoever not otherwise specifically mentioned in this Schedule

(a) Where not more than 5 lots or sections of lots are affected S 60;

(b) And in addition for each lot or section of a lot affected in

excess of 5 ....................... 5 10:

Provided that where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Land Officer that
the total value of all the lots or sections of lots or shares or interests therein
affected is less than $50,000 the fees shall be as follows

(i) Where not more than 5 lots or sections of lots are affected
30;

(ii) And in addition for each lot or section of a tot affected in

excess of 5 ..................S 10.

5. Receiving for registration any instrument withheld from registration and
subsequently redelivered for registration. whether for the first or any subsequent
time,

in addition to the fees already paid under item 1, 2, 3 or 4-
For each period of 28 days or any part thereof during which
the instrument is not so redelivered. the first such period com-
mencing on the day upon which the instrument is collected
under regulation 15(3) of the Land Registration Regulations or,
where notice in writing is given by the Land Officer under
regulation 17 of those regulations, on the day upon which such
notice is given ...................$120.







6..............................Receiving any instrument for safe custody 5 60:

Provided that where 2 or more instruments relating to the same property

are deposited at the same lime the fees shall be as follows-

(i) For the first instrument ..1 60;

(ii) For each additional instrument ........................ S 10,

and the Land Officer's decision as to whether instruments relate to the same
property shall be final.

7. A search in the Land Office

For each memorial, Crown lease, Memorial Day Book, plan or

diazo copy produced or supplied . 5 5.
8-9. [Deleted, L.N. 248/86]

10. (1) Supplying a photocopy, or a hard copy from a microfilm, of any
instrument, memorial, or Crown lease

For each sheet or portion of a sheet supplied 5 3;

(IA) Supplying a photocopy of one side or both sides of a register

card.................
............................................................................................ S 10.





(2) Supplying a photocopy of a plan attached to a Crown lease
or other document, per plan .......S 3.

(3) Colouring or indicating colours upon any such plan, such additional fee, not being less
than $10 and not more than S200 as the Land Officer shall direct, having regard to the time spent
thereon:

Provided that where any photocopy or hard copy supplied under paragraph (1) or (2) exceeds
in size 216 mm by 330 mm, such additional fee. not exceeding $3 as the

Land Officer shall direct, shall be payable.
11. Certifying a photocopy ............................ $ 65.
12. Fees for and incidental to-

(a) the preparation signature and issue of a Crown lease and
counterpart ................... ...... $1.000;

(b) the preparation of a surrender (when it is at the lessee's expense)
of a Crown lease or other tenaney from the Crown $500.

13. Plans attached to a Crown lease and counterpart, or other
document, or copies (other than photocopies) thereof, per plan ................ $1,000.

14. For the survey when a new Crown lease is issued for the whole
or any portion of a lot formerly held under Crown lease ....... .......$5,000

15. Supplying a computer printout containing

(a) current particulars of a property .................... $10;

(b) historical and current particulars of a property $ 20.
G.N.A. 104/57. L.N. 31/63. L.N. 77/67. L.N. 238/74. L.N. 256/78. L.N. 4/80. 56 of 1980. L.N. 139/81. 31 of 1981. L.N. 108/85. L.N. 248/86. Citation. Interpretation. L.N. 139/86. L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) Fees payable. Schedule. (Cap. 97.) (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 238/74. L.N. 139/81. L.N. 139/81. Power to grant exemption. 56 of 1980, s. 12. Duty to grant exemption. L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 344.) L.N. 139/81. L.N. 108/85. L.N. 248/86. 31 of 1981, s. 65. (Cap. 117.) L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 248/86.

G.N.A. 104/57. L.N. 31/63. L.N. 77/67. L.N. 238/74. L.N. 256/78. L.N. 4/80. 56 of 1980. L.N. 139/81. 31 of 1981. L.N. 108/85. L.N. 248/86. Citation. Interpretation. L.N. 139/86. L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) Fees payable. Schedule. (Cap. 97.) (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 238/74. L.N. 139/81. L.N. 139/81. Power to grant exemption. 56 of 1980, s. 12. Duty to grant exemption. L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 344.) L.N. 139/81. L.N. 108/85. L.N. 248/86. 31 of 1981, s. 65. (Cap. 117.) L.N. 248/86. (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 248/86.

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