### Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance 《集體官契(長洲)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 6 of 2021)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 6 of 2021)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Block Crown Lease (集體官契) means the Block Crown Lease of the survey district Cheung Chau dated 18 March 1905 and made between the Crown of the one part and Wong Wai Tsak Tong of the other part, whereby certain lots in Cheung Chau were demised, and includes grants of lots in favour of Wong Wai Tsak Tong made after 18 March 1905 and other grants of lots made after that date which have been assigned to Wong Wai Tsak Tong;
land (土地) means a lot or lots, or part or parts thereof;
lot (地段) means a piece or parcel of ground demised under the Block Crown Lease or granted after 18 March 1905, whether upon the surrender of old lots under the Block Crown Lease or not, and identified by a lot number in the Land Registry;
sub-lease (分租契) means a sub-lease granted by Wong Wai Tsak Tong which has been registered in the Land Registry before the commencement* of this Ordinance of land or undivided shares in land held under the Block Crown Lease for a term of years specified in the sub-lease and renewable on the same terms until the termination of the Block Crown Lease, whether renewed or not, and includes such a sub-lease which has been assigned in whole or in part or has been retained in part following an assignment and which assignment has been registered in the Land Registry before the commencement of this Ordinance;
sub-lessee (分租契承租人) means a person who is the sub-lessee in a sub-lease, his executor, administrator and assign;
undivided shares in land (土地的不分割份數) includes the entitlement to exclusive possession of premises attached to the entitlement to the undivided shares.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 8 September 1995.

3. Termination of the Block Crown Lease
Upon this Ordinance coming into operation* as provided by section 1(2), the Block Crown Lease granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong is terminated.

Editorial Note:
* Operation date: 8 September 1995.

### Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance 《集體官契(長洲)條例》

4. Sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease are deemed Government lessees
(1) As from the commencement* of this Ordinance, all sub-lessees, other than the sub-lessees of the sub-leases referred to in section 9(1), are deemed to hold the land or undivided shares in land to which they are respectively entitled under the sub-leases directly from the Government as Government lessees.
(2) As from the expiration of the current term of a new sub-lease deemed to be granted under section 9(2), the sub-lessee is deemed to hold the land or undivided shares in land to which he is entitled under the new sub-lease directly from the Government as Government lessee or lessee.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 92) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 8 September 1995.

### Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance 《集體官契(長洲)條例》

6. Lots not sub-leased and lots to which sections 4 and 5 are inapplicable
(1) A separate Government lease of all the land or undivided shares in land held by Wong Wai Tsak Tong under the Block Crown Lease but in respect of which sections 4(1) and 5(1) have no effect is, on the commencement* of this Ordinance, deemed to have been granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong as from that date as Government lessee for the residue of the term of the Block Crown Lease as renewed under the New Territories (Renewable Government Leases) Ordinance (Cap. 152) and extended under the New Territories Leases (Extension) Ordinance (Cap. 150) and that Government lease contains the same covenants, exceptions, reservations, powers and conditions contained in the Block Crown Lease, so far as applicable.
(2) As from the date of the deeming, under section 5(2), of a new sub-lease referred to in section 9(2) to be a direct lease from the Government, the land or undivided shares in land held under the separate Government lease deemed to have been granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong under subsection (1) to which the deemed direct lease relates are deemed to have been surrendered to the Government, and the separate Government lease is deemed to have been modified to exclude that land or those undivided shares in land.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 94) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 8 September 1995.

### Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance 《集體官契(長洲)條例》

7. Rent for deemed leases
(1) Government rent payable for the period until 30 June 1997 for a sub-lease deemed to be a Government lease under section 5(1) or for the Government lease deemed to have been granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong under section 6(1) is, in respect of the land or undivided shares in land, the subject of the deemed Government lease or the Government lease deemed to have been granted, in the amount specified in the Block Crown Lease in respect of the land or undivided shares in land.
(2) Rent payable to the Government for the period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 2047 for a sub-lease deemed to be a Government lease under section 5(1), for a new sub-lease under section 9(2) deemed to be a direct lease under section 5(2), or for the Government lease deemed to have been granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong under section 6(1) is, in respect of the land or undivided shares in land, the subject of the deemed Government lease, the deemed direct lease or the Government lease deemed to have been granted, an amount equivalent to 3% of the rateable value from time to time of the land or undivided shares in land.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 95)

8. Existing burden and covenants
Every new Government lease or direct lease deemed to have been granted under sections 5 and 6 and the land thereby deemed to be demised shall be subject to such of the following encumbrances and interests as the land and the sub-lease, the new sub-lease under section 9(2) and the Block Crown Lease relating thereto were subject to immediately before this Ordinance comes into operation*— (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 96)
(a) any mortgage or charge, whether legal or equitable, and whether registered in a Land Registry register or not;
(b) any public rights; and
(c) any other rights, easements, tenancies or other burdens or encumbrances of whatsoever kind or nature, except such as were created by instrument and were not thereby expressed to continue after the date this Ordinance comes into operation.

Editorial Note:
* Operation date: 8 September 1995.

### Block Crown Lease (Cheung Chau) Ordinance 《集體官契(長洲)條例》

9. Special sub-leases
(1) Sections 4(1) and 5(1) do not apply to a sub-lease which by agreement between Wong Wai Tsak Tong and the sub-lessee has been granted or renewed for any period extending beyond 9 November 1994 and under which agreement the Tong and the sub-lessee have agreed on the amount of rent payable to the Tong under the sub-lease after 30 June 1997.
(2) A sub-lessee under a sub-lease referred to in subsection (1) is deemed, immediately on the date of the deemed granting of a separate Government lease to Wong Wai Tsak Tong under section 6(1), to be granted by Wong Wai Tsak Tong a new sub-lease as from that date for the residue of the term of that sub-lease on the same terms and conditions as the sub-lease referred to in subsection (1). (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 96)