LAND REGISTRATION (NEW TERRITORIES) FEES REGULATIONS

LAND REGISTRATION (NEW TERRITORIES) FEES REGULATIONS

LAND REGISTRATION (NEW TERRITORIES) FEES
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 128, section 27)

[19 May 1967.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Land Registration (New
Territories) Fees Regulations.

2. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the fees set forth in the Schedule
shall be taken in District Land Offices for the matters therein mentioned.

(2) Where any deed or instrument which is tendered for registration in a
District Land Office has been registered in any other District Land Office on
payment of the registration fee set forth in the Schedule, the fee for registering
such deed or instrument in the first-mentioned District Land Office shall be the
fee set forth in the Schedule or $30, whichever is the less.

(3) 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 any District Land Office relates to other property as
well as to land to which Part 11 of the New Territories Ordinance applies and
has been registered in the Land Office in Victoria on payment of the registration
fee prescribed in the Land Registration Fees Regulations, the fee for registering
such deed or instrument in the District Land Office shall be the fee set forth in
the Schedule or $30. whichever is the less.

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 item
8(1) of the Schedule in respect of supplying a photostatic copy of any folio of
a District Land Office register if he is satisfied that information contained on
that folio 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 deed or 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 other-wise transferred, including a
certificate of satisfaction of any mortgage or charge,





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

or interest affected-
(a) does not exceed $1,000 ........5 5;
(b) exceeds $1,000 but does not exceed $5,000 5 10;
(c) exceeds $5,000 but does not exceed 520.000 5 30;
(d) exceeds $20,000 but does not exceed $100.000 60;
(e) exceeds SI 00,000 but does not exceed $500,000 5120;
(f) exceeds $500,000 ..............$240:
Provided that the maximum fee payable for any deed or instrument
exempted from stamp duty under the provisions of section 46 of the Stamp
Duty Ordinance shall be ...........5 30.

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

Where the amount or value of the consideration or principal sum secured, or
the value of the property or share or interest therein to which the instrument
relates

(a) does not exceed $1,000 ........S 5:
(b) exceeds $1,000 but does not exceed $20,000 S 1 0;
(c) exceeds $20,000 ...............S 30.
3. Registration of any lease, agreement for a lease, or renewal or
surrender of a lease ..............S 30:

Provided that where the annual rent does not exceed $2,400 and it is
shown to the satisfaction of the Land Officer that the value of the
premises

leased does not exceed $20,000. the fee shall be ................................
S 10.

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 deed or
instrument whatsoever not otherwise specifically mentioned in this Schedule

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

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

of 5 ..... ...................5 5:

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 $20,000 the fees shall be as fellows

(i) Where not more than 5 lots or sections of lots are affected 10;

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

of 5 ........................................
................................ 5.

5. Receiving any instrument for safe custody S 30:

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

deposited at the same time the fees shall be as fellows-
(i) For the first instrument ............. 30;
(ii) For each additional instrument ... 5,

and the Land Officer's decision as to whether instruments relate to the same






property shall be final.

6. Supplying a manuscript copy of or extract from any instrument or
memorial or pages of a District Land Office register

(a) Per folio of 723 words (excluding printed words forming part of any

form used for the purpose) ......$1.50;
(b) Plus for any printed form used $1.00.
7. Certifying any such copy, and for every other certificate S 65.

8. (1) Supply a photostatic copy of any instrument or memorial or folio of a
District Land Office register- 1

For each sheet (or portion of a sheet) of photostatic reproduction

supplied
....................................................................................
................................S 3:





Provided that where the folio of a District Land Office register is a record
card the fee shall be as follows

For photostatic reproduction of either one side or both sides of

the same register card ........................... S
5.

(2) Supplying a photostatic copy of a plan attached to a Crown lease
or other document, per plan .......$ 3.

(3) Colouring or indicating colours upon any such plan, such additional fee,
not being less than $2 and not more than S50 as the District Officer shall direct,
having regard to the time spent on such colouring or indicating of colours:

Provided that where any photostatic copy supplied under paragraph (1) or (2)
exceeds in size 2 10 x 297 mm, such additional fee, not exceeding $3.00 as the
District Officer shall direct, shall be payable.

9. Certifying a photostatic copy ..........................................
.................$ 65.

10. Fees for and incidental to-

(a) the preparation, signature and issue of a Crown lease and
counterpart............ .....................
....................................... ........... $200:

(b) the preparation of a surrender (when it is at the lessee's expense)
of a Crown lease or other tenancy from the Crown $ 50.

11. Plans attached to a Crown lease counterpart, or other
document, or copies (other than photostatic copies) thereof per plan $ 50.

12. For the survey when a new Crown lease is issued for the whole or
any portion of a lot formerly held under Crown lease $150.
L.N. 76/67. L.N. 239/74. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 5/80. 56 of 1980. 31 of 1981. L.N. 76/82. L.N. 397/84. L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86. Citation. Fees payable. Schedule. L.N. 239/74. (Cap. 97.) (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 239/74. Power to grant exemption. L.N. 76/82. 56 of 1980, s. 12. Duty to grant exemption. L.N. 249/86. (Cap. 344.) L.N. 239/74. L.N. 76/82. 31 of 1981, s. 65. (Cap. 117.) L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86. L.N. 5/80. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 397/84. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86.

L.N. 76/67. L.N. 239/74. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 5/80. 56 of 1980. 31 of 1981. L.N. 76/82. L.N. 397/84. L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86. Citation. Fees payable. Schedule. L.N. 239/74. (Cap. 97.) (Cap. 128, sub. leg.) L.N. 239/74. Power to grant exemption. L.N. 76/82. 56 of 1980, s. 12. Duty to grant exemption. L.N. 249/86. (Cap. 344.) L.N. 239/74. L.N. 76/82. 31 of 1981, s. 65. (Cap. 117.) L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86. L.N. 5/80. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 397/84. L.N. 257/78. L.N. 109/85. L.N. 249/86.

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