Hong Kong Regulations

LAND REGISTRATION REGULATIONS - REGULATION 18

Recording of old memorials and register cards, etc.

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Land Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of
the Land Registration (Amendment) Regulation 1995 (L.N. 584 of 1995), record-

   (a)  on 16 mm black and white microfilm; or

   (b)  by the imaging method, the memorial of every instrument registered
        prior to-

        (i)    in the case of a memorial of an instrument registered in the
               Land Registry, other than the New Territories Land Registry,
               the commencement of that Regulation; or

        (ii)   in the case of a memorial of an instrument registered in the
               New Territories Land Registry, the date, or the latter of the
               dates if more than one date, appointed by the Land Registrar
               under regulation 14(2A).

(2) The Land Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of
the Land Registration (Amendment) Regulation 1995 (L.N. 584 of 1995)-

   (a)  record on 16 mm black and white microfilm every register card kept by
        him in the Land Registry, other than the New Territories Land
        Registry; and

   (b)  enter the particulars of every register card kept by him in the New
        Territories Land Registry on a portion of the record in a register 
        computer kept for the purpose of this regulation for the land and the
        premises to which the register card relates.

(3) The Land Registrar may at any time record by using the imaging method the
microfilm record of every memorial referred to in paragraph (1).

(4) The microfilm or image record of every memorial referred to in paragraph
(1), the microfilm record of every register card referred to in paragraph (2)
and the image record of the microfilm record referred to in paragraph (3)
shall be deposited and kept by the Land Registrar in a secure place in the
Land Registry for future reference when required.

(5) In this regulation, “New Territories Land Registry”
(新界區土地註冊處) has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2 as
in force immediately before the commencement* of section 60(a) of the Schedule
to the Land Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 2002 (20 of 2002). (20 of 2002
s. 5) (L.N. 584 of 1995)
________________________________________________________________________ Note:

* Commencement date: 12 February 2005. “New Territories Land Registry”
(新界區土地註冊處)