### Government Rights (Re-entry and Vesting Remedies) Ordinance 《政府土地權(重收及轉歸補救)條例》

12. Cancellation of vesting notice
(1) A vesting notice shall be taken to be cancelled in respect of the whole or part of the relevant interest affected by such notice if a memorandum to the effect that the vesting notice is cancelled in respect of the whole or part of such relevant interest by order of the Chief Executive or Chief Executive in Council or of the Court of First Instance, as the case may be, is written on the memorial of the vesting notice and signed by the Land Registrar. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2; 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(2) Immediately on cancellation in accordance with subsection (1), a vesting notice so far as it affects the relevant interest specified in the memorandum shall become void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been made or registered and the relevant interest and the rights and obligations specified in the memorandum shall be revested ipso facto in the former owner for all his previous estate or interest therein; and every mortgage, charge, lien or other right or obligation previously existing in relation thereto shall be deemed to be as valid and subsisting in every respect as if no vesting notice had been registered at the Land Registry.
(3) Notice of the cancellation of a vesting notice under subsection (1) shall, within 30 days thereof, be served upon the former owner by the Land Registrar and be published in the Gazette.
(Amended 8 of 1993 ss. 2 & 3)

13. Service
For the purposes of this Ordinance, service of any notice may be effected—
(a) personally; or
(b) by registered post; or
(c) in the case of a notice under section 7(3) or 12(3)—
(i) by leaving the notice with an adult person who appears to be an occupier of the premises the entitlement to the exclusive possession of which is attached to the relevant interest affected by the notice; or
(ii) by posting the notice upon a conspicuous part of such premises.

14. Ordinance not in derogation of other remedies
Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed so as to take away or affect any other remedies of the Government for the enforcement of rights of re-entry upon any lands or buildings.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)

15. Saving
Notwithstanding the repeal of the Crown Rights (Re-entry) Ordinance (Cap. 126, 1964 Ed.), that Ordinance, in this section referred to as the repealed Ordinance

### Government Rent and Premium (Apportionment) Ordinance 《地稅及地價(分攤)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Government Rent and Premium (Apportionment) Ordinance.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 36)

### Government Rent and Premium (Apportionment) Ordinance 《地稅及地價(分攤)條例》

3. Application
(1A) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), this Ordinance does not apply to any interest in land held under an applicable lease within the meaning of the Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance (Cap. 515) as from—
(i) in the case of an applicable lease extended by section 6 of the New Territories Leases (Extension) Ordinance (Cap. 150), 28 June 1997;
(ii) in the case of an interest held under an applicable lease which was exempted from liability to pay Government rent under the Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance (Cap. 515), the date on which the exemption ceases to apply;
(iii) in the case of an applicable lease under which there is an express obligation to pay an annual rent of 3% of the rateable value from time to time of the land leased, the date specified in the lease as the date from which the rent is payable.
(b) Nothing in paragraph (a) shall affect any right or liability already acquired or incurred in respect of any interest referred to in that paragraph under or by virtue of any provision of this Ordinance at any time before this Ordinance ceases to apply to such interest by virtue of that paragraph. (Added 53 of 1997 s. 55)
(1) Subject to subsection (1A), this Ordinance does not apply to land in the New Territories unless the land— (Amended 53 of 1997 s. 55)
(a) has been exempted from Part II of the New Territories Ordinance (Cap. 97) under section 7 thereof; or
(b) is declared to be subject to this Ordinance by the Chief Executive by notice in the Gazette. (Amended 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(2) A notice under subsection (1)(b) may specify the date from which the land shall be subject to this Ordinance.

4. Power of Chief Executive to give directions to Director of Lands
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; L.N. 291 of 1993)(1) The Chief Executive may give to the Director of Lands and any public officer such directions as he thinks fit with respect to the exercise or performance of their powers, functions and duties under this Ordinance, either generally or in any particular case.
(2) The Director of Lands and every public officer shall, in the exercise or performance of his powers, functions and duties under this Ordinance, comply with any directions given by the Chief Executive under subsection (1).
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; L.N. 291 of 1993; 3 of 2000 s. 3)

### Government Rent and Premium (Apportionment) Ordinance 《地稅及地價(分攤)條例》

5. Power to apportion on section
Subject to any directions given by the Chief Executive under section 4, the Director of Lands may, if he thinks fit, either of his own motion or on the application of the owner, determine in accordance with this Ordinance— (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; L.N. 291 of 1993; 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) the Government rent payable in respect of a section; and (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
(b) where the principal premium is payable by instalments, the annual instalment of that premium payable in respect of a section.

6. Apportionment of Government rent
(1) If the Director of Lands decides in accordance with section 5 to determine the Government rent payable in respect of a section, then, subject to subsection (2), the Government rent payable in respect of that section shall be determined by the Director of Lands in the following manner, that is to say— (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; L.N. 291 of 1993; 29 of 1998 s. 105)
(a) in accordance with any apportionment of the principal Government rent appearing in the Government Rent Roll; or
(b) in accordance with any apportionment of the principal Government rent made in an instrument which is registered in the Land Registry; or (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2)
(c) if there is no such apportionment as is referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), so that it bears the same proportion to the principal Government rent as the area of the section bears to the area of the lot.
(2) The Director of Lands shall add to the Government rent determined in accordance with subsection (1)— (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; L.N. 291 of 1993; 29 of 1998 s. 105)
(a) such sum as may be necessary to make the same an even number of dollars; and
(b) a further sum of $2,
and the determined Government rent payable in respect of the section shall be the sum so ascertained. 
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)