### Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance 《土地交易(淪陷時期)條例》

7. Deletion, etc., of green ink entries by Land Registrar
(1) The Land Registrar may, and shall be deemed always to have had power to—
(a) delete any green ink entry which he is satisfied should not have been made;
(b) make any green ink entry which he is satisfied should have been made; and
(c) vary or add to any such entry when he is satisfied that such variation or addition is necessary,
and any such deletion, variation or addition shall be attested and verified by the signature of the Land Registrar.
(2) The Land Registrar shall delete any green ink entry recording or evidencing the purported discharge of a debt which by reason of the Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Ordinance (24 of 1948), is deemed to have been wholly or partly undischarged or any green ink entry depending for its validity on the valid discharge of such a debt.
(3) Any person aggrieved on the ground that a green ink entry should not have been made or is incorrect or on the ground that the appropriate green ink entry has not been made or is no longer subsisting may apply for redress to the court by summary petition verified upon oath and the court may thereupon take such evidence as it thinks fit, and may make any order in relation to the matter which the justice of the case requires. A copy of every such petition shall be delivered to the Land Registrar as soon as may be after the issue thereof.
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3)

8. Saving
Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, in any action for specific performance founded on this Ordinance—
(a) it shall be a valid defence for a person who has been required to assign or confirm in accordance with the provisions hereof, to show that the Japanese assignment in respect of which such assignment or confirmation was required is void or voidable at his instance or would have been void or voidable at his instance but for the enactment of this Ordinance;
(b) a defendant shall be entitled to rely upon any defence not inconsistent with this Ordinance upon which he would have been entitled to rely had this Ordinance not been passed.

### Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance 《土地交易(淪陷時期)條例》

9. Rules
(1) The Chief Justice may make general rules and orders subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, for regulating—
(a) the practice and procedure of the court in respect of proceedings of any kind under this Ordinance;
(b) the forms to be used;
(c) court fees, the fees of counsel and the costs of solicitors;
(d) generally, for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance relating to legal proceedings and relating to the carrying out of the orders and directions of the High Court.
(2) Until such rules and orders are made and in so far as the same may make no provision the rules and orders, practice and procedure, forms and fees for the time being in force in the High Court in its original jurisdiction or in the District Court, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be in force with such modifications as the circumstances may require.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

10. Provision for certain instruments not registered in the Japanese house registration office
Whenever, by reason of the regulations, practice or procedure applicable to the Japanese house registration office, or by reason of the absence of parties, or for any other reason which the court shall deem sufficient, a conveyance, assignment or other disposition of any land house or building, executed during the Japanese occupation otherwise than by way of mortgage or re-assignment, was not registered at the Japanese house registration office and such conveyance, assignment or other disposition was, by reason of not being under seal, or owing to the parcels being incorrectly described, or through any defect in form or otherwise, inoperative according to the law in force in Hong Kong immediately prior to the Japanese occupation to carry out the true intention of the parties, then the provisions of sections 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 shall apply to such conveyance, assignment or disposition in like manner as if it had been a Japanese assignment within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(Amended 61 of 1999 s. 3)

### Mock Auctions Ordinance 《假拍賣條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Mock Auctions Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
competitive bidding (競投) includes any mode of sale by which prospective purchasers can compete for the purchase of articles, whether by way of increasing bids or by the offer of articles to be bid for at successively decreasing prices or otherwise;
lot (批貨) means a lot consisting of or including one or more prescribed articles;
prescribed article (訂明物品) means any article belonging to a class of article specified in the Schedule;
sale of goods by way of competitive bidding (以競投方式售賣貨品) means any sale of goods at which the persons present, or some of them, are invited to buy articles by way of competitive bidding;
stated (述明), in relation to a sale of goods by way of competitive bidding, means stated by or on behalf of the person conducting the sale, by an announcement made to the persons for the time being present at the sale.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance—
(a) any bid stated to have been made at a sale of goods by way of competitive bidding shall be conclusively presumed to have been made, and to have been a bid of the amount stated;
(b) any reference in this Ordinance to the sale of a lot to a person who has made a bid for it includes a reference to a purported sale of it to a person stated to have bid for it, whether that person exists or not; and
(c) any thing done in or about the place where a sale of goods by way of competitive bidding is held, if done in connection with the sale, shall be taken to be done during the course of the sale, whether it is done at the time when any articles are being sold or offered for sale by way of competitive bidding or before or after any such time.
[cf. 1961 c. 47 s. 3 U.K.]