Hong Kong Regulations

LAND REGISTRATION REGULATIONS - REGULATION 9

Size and form of instruments

(Past version on 12/12/2002).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).



"identity card" (身分證)

"identity card number" (身分證號碼)

"travel document" (旅行證件)

(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), an instrument (including a copy thereof)
delivered for registration shall- (20 of 2002 s. 5)

   (a)  unless the Land Registrar otherwise permits, be on paper of A4  size;
        (L.N. 445 of 1996)

   (b)  contain, where practicable-

        (i)    in the case of an individual signing the instrument- (A) his
               identity card number if he is the holder of an identity  card;
               (B) in any other case, particulars of a travel document of
               which he is the holder;

        (ii)   in the case of a company executing the instrument- (A) the
               number by which it is registered under the Companies  Ordinance
               ( Cap 32); (B) if that Ordinance does not apply, particulars of
               its incorporation or establishment sufficient to identify the
               company; (20 of 2002 s. 5)

   (c)  be bound, to the satisfaction of the Land Registrar, in such a manner
        as to enable the instrument to be satisfactorily recorded on microfilm
        or by the imaging method in accordance with regulation 14(2); and (8
        of 1993 s. 30)

   (d)  unless the Land Registrar otherwise permits, be printed or written in
        black ink on one side only of white paper or azure ledger paper. (L.N.
        445 of 1996)

(1A) A copy of an instrument may only be delivered for registration instead of
the instrument if-

   (a)  the instrument belongs to a class of instruments specified in column 1
        of Schedule 3 and the copy is certified, by the person or in the
        manner, if any, specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that
        Schedule, to be such a copy; or

   (b)  the Land Registrar so permits in writing and the copy is certified, by
        a person or in a manner satisfactory to the Land Registrar, to be such
        a copy. (20 of 2002 s. 5)

(1B) The Land Registrar may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend
Schedule 3. (20 of 2002 s. 5)

(2) The type or other writing in an instrument (or a copy thereof) delivered
for registration shall be of such quality as to enable the contents thereof to
be satisfactorily recorded on microfilm or by the imaging method in accordance
with regulation 14(2). (20 of 2002 s. 5)

(3) In this regulation-

"identity card" (身分證) means an identity card issued under the
Registration  of Persons Ordinance ( Cap 177); (L.N. 36 of 2007)

"identity card number" (身分證號碼) means the reference number appearing
on an identity card; (L.N. 36 of 2007)

"travel document" (旅行證件) means a travel document within the meaning of
the Immigration Ordinance ( Cap 115). (20 of 2002 s. 5) (L.N. 584 of 1995)