Hong Kong Regulations

LAND REGISTRATION REGULATIONS - REGULATION 20

Correction of memorials

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Any correction by erasure, interlineation or otherwise in any memorial of
an instrument registered under the Ordinance shall-

   (a)  in the case of any such memorial recorded on microfilm, be noted and
        set forth at length on a copy thereof in the form generally known as a
        reader-printer hard copy, together with the reasons for making the
        same;

   (aa) in the case of any such memorial or the microfilm record thereof
        recorded by the imaging method, be noted and set forth at length on a
        copy thereof produced from the image record, together with the reasons
        for making the same; (L.N. 584 of 1995)

   (b)  in the case of any other such memorial, be noted and set forth at
        length on the margin thereof, together with the reasons for making the
        same, (20 of 2002 s. 5) and shall be attested and verified by the
        signature of the Land Registrar.

(2) The Land Registrar shall-

   (a)  record on 16 mm black and white microfilm the duly corrected copy of
        any memorial referred to in paragraph (1)(a); or (L.N. 584 of 1995)

   (b)  record by the imaging method the duly corrected copy of any memorial
        referred to in paragraph (1)(aa), and substitute the microfilm or
        image record of the memorial with the microfilm or image record, as
        the case may be, of the corrected copy. (L.N. 584 of 1995)

(3) The Land Registrar may thereafter destroy or otherwise dispose of the
microfilm or the image record for which he has made substitution in such
manner as he thinks fit. (L.N. 584 of 1995)

(8 of 1993 s. 30)