### Crown Lease (Pok Fu Lam) Ordinance 《官契(薄扶林)條例》

6. Completed plan to be open to inspection; and method of objection thereto
Upon completion of the plan the Director shall cause a notice to be published declaring—
(a) that the plan has been prepared and is available for inspection by the public;
(b) a suitable place at which the plan may be so inspected and the hours during which it shall be open to such inspection;
(c) that any person claiming to have an interest in any land comprised in the plan and who considers that the plan is incorrect in any manner that is prejudicial to such interest may, within 60 days after the date of the publication of such notice in the Gazette, or within such longer period as the Governor may allow in any particular case, serve upon the Director an application in writing specifying the nature of such interest and the manner in which such person considers the plan to be incorrect together with sufficient indication of the grounds for such consideration, and requesting that the plan be corrected accordingly.

7. Approval of plan by Director
(1) Upon the expiration of the period specified or allowed under section 6, the Director shall consider the applications (if any) received by him pursuant to that section and may direct such further data and information to be obtained relative to any such application as he thinks fit.
(2) After consideration of such applications and, if he has so directed, of any such further data and information obtained, or, where no such applications are received by him, the Director may allow the plan to stand unamended or amend it in such manner as he thinks fit, and thereafter shall cause a notice to be published approving the plan, either in the form as made available to the public under section 6, or as amended in accordance with this subsection and specifying the manner in which the same has been amended.

### Crown Lease (Pok Fu Lam) Ordinance 《官契(薄扶林)條例》

8. Application to District Court for amendment of plan
(1) Any person claiming to have an interest in any land comprised in the plan as approved under section 7(2) and who considers that such plan is incorrect in any manner that is prejudicial to such interest may, within 30 days after the publication under that subsection of the notice in the Gazette, apply to the District Court for an order directing the Director to amend the plan in the manner specified in the application or in such other manner as the court may think just.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Crown Proceedings Ordinance (Cap. 300), the Director shall be named as defendant in any application made under subsection (1), and the court, of its own motion or on application made to it, may in addition cause to be joined as co-defendant any person who it appears may be affected by any order which may be made directing the amendment of the plan.
(3) In any case in which a person to be joined as a co-defendant in proceedings under this section is absent from Hong Kong or cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be found, the court may in its discretion appoint a solicitor to represent such person. (Amended 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(4) An application to the District Court under this section shall be instituted by an originating summons and shall for all purposes relating to costs and fees be deemed to be an action in respect of which the value of the claim exceeds $500 but does not exceed $2,000.

9. District Court may order the amendment of the plan
Where an application is made under section 8 within the time specified therein, the District Court, having heard the representations of the parties and any evidence adduced by them, may, if it thinks fit, order the Director to amend the plan as approved under section 7(2), either in the manner specified in the application or in such other manner as the court may think just.

10. Appeal to a judge
Any party to an application made under section 8 who is aggrieved by a decision of the District Court under section 9 may appeal against such decision within 14 days after the making thereof to a judge, who may confirm, reverse or vary the decision of the District Court, and the decision of the judge on any such appeal shall be final.

11. Plan as approved or amended to take the place of original plan
The plan, as approved under section 7(2), or, if amended by order of the District Court or a judge, as so amended after all applications and all appeals have been finally disposed of under sections 9 and 10, respectively, shall be deemed for all purposes to be the original plan; and the Director shall cause a notice to be published stating that the plan stands as so approved, or, where the plan is so amended, specifying the manner in which it is amended.

### Stamp Duty Ordinance 《印花稅條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Stamp Duty Ordinance.

### Stamp Duty Ordinance 《印花稅條例》

2A. Instruments affected by Land Titles Ordinance

(Addition not yet in operation—see 26 of 2004 s. 40)

3. Collector of Stamp Revenue and assistant collectors
(1) There shall be a Collector of Stamp Revenue who shall be appointed by the Chief Executive, and such number of assistant collectors as the Chief Executive may appoint for the purposes of this Ordinance. (Amended 12 of 1999 s. 3)
(2) The office of the Collector shall be at such place as the Collector may determine.
(3) A reference in any provision in this Ordinance to the Collector shall, in relation to the exercise of any function conferred by that provision on the Collector, include a reference to any assistant collector who is for the time being authorized in writing by the Collector to exercise such function.
(4) Any person appointed under section 2 of the Stamp Ordinance (Cap. 117 1978 Ed.) as Collector of Stamp Revenue or assistant collector and holding such office immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be appointed under this section as Collector of Stamp Revenue or assistant collector, as the case may be.

### Stamp Duty Ordinance 《印花稅條例》

6. Cancellation of adhesive stamps
(1) Every adhesive stamp used to denote the payment of stamp duty under section 5(2) shall be cancelled forthwith by the person affixing it in such manner as to render it incapable of being used again for any revenue purpose.
(2) An instrument stamped by means of an adhesive stamp shall not be duly stamped unless the adhesive stamp is cancelled as required by subsection (1).