Hong Kong Ordinances

LAND TITLES ORDINANCE - SECT 33

Additional fee for delayed registration

not yet in operation

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where an application for the
registration of any dealing is presented to the Registrar for registration
later than 3 months after the date of the instrument supporting the
application, then, in addition to the prescribed fee payable in respect of the
application, an additional fee equal to that prescribed fee shall be payable
for each month or part of a month which has elapsed since the date of that
instrument.

(2) No additional fee payable under subsection (1) in respect of the
registration of a dealing shall exceed 10 times the prescribed fee that would
have been payable in respect of the application which relates to the dealing
if that dealing had been registered on the date of the instrument supporting
the application.

(3) The Registrar may remit, either in whole or in part, any additional fee
payable under subsection (1) where to do so is in his opinion just and
equitable in all the circumstances of the case.