### Land Titles Ordinance 《土地業權條例》

26. Effect of registration of long term lease
(Not yet in operation)
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and sections 27 and 82, immediately upon registration of a person as the lessee of a registered long term lease, there shall vest in the person, free from all other interests and claims—
(a) the interest in the lease; and
(b) all rights attaching to the land which may be exercised by virtue of that interest.
(2) The person who is registered as the lessee shall hold his interest and rights subject to—
(a) any covenants, exceptions, reservations, stipulations, provisos or declarations contained in the Government lease of the land or the long term lease;
(b) any registered matter affecting the land; and
(c) any overriding interest affecting the land.
(3) Nothing in this section shall relieve the lessee of a registered long term lease from a duty to which he is subject as trustee.

27. Voluntary transfer
(Not yet in operation)
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the provisions of this Ordinance shall operate in relation to the owner of registered land or a registered charge, or the lessee of a registered long term lease, who has acquired the land, charge or lease by transfer without valuable consideration as if the transfer had been for valuable consideration.
(2) The owner of registered land or a registered charge, or the lessee of a registered long term lease, referred to in subsection (1) shall hold the land, charge or lease subject to—
(a) the provisions of the Bankruptcy Ordinance (Cap. 6);
(b) Part V of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32); (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(c) section 33(9) of the Buildings Ordinance (Cap. 123); and
(d) any unregistered interests (including any matter referred to in section 4(2) or 7(2) of Schedule 1) subject to which the immediately preceding transferor held the land, charge or lease.
(3) Subsection (2) shall not operate to limit, restrict, or qualify the operation of any other provisions of this Ordinance.

### Land Titles Ordinance 《土地業權條例》

29. Title certificates
(Not yet in operation)
(1) The Registrar may, on application presented to him by the owner of registered land or the lessee of a registered long term lease, issue to the owner or lessee a certificate in the specified form showing, or referring to, all current entries in the Title Register affecting the land or lease.
(2) Where only part of the registered land or interest in the registered long term lease which is the subject of a title certificate is dealt with in a transfer or transmission—
(a) the title certificate shall accompany the application for registration of the transfer or transmission; and
(b) the Registrar shall cancel that title certificate upon the registration of the application.
(3) A title certificate shall be admissible as evidence of the matters contained in the certificate as on the date of its issue.
(4) Notwithstanding what is shown, or referred to, in a title certificate, the Title Register shall be conclusive evidence of the title to the registered land and interest in the registered long term lease and the other matters shown on the Title Register.
(5) Except in the circumstances permitted under the regulations, if a title certificate has been issued for registered land or a registered long term lease, a transfer or transmission shall not be registered in respect of the land or lease unless the certificate is returned for cancellation.
(6) After the Registrar has issued a title certificate for registered land or a registered long term lease, he—
(a) shall make a note in the Title Register that the certificate has been issued; and
(b) subject to subsection (7), shall not issue another title certificate in respect of the land or lease unless the first certificate is cancelled.
(7) A new title certificate may be issued, in accordance with the regulations, in place of a title certificate which has been lost or destroyed or which for any other reason needs to be replaced.
(8) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a title certificate is subject to—
(a) any overriding interest; and
(b) any subsequent entry in the Title Register,
affecting the registered land or the registered long term lease to which the certificate relates.

### Land Titles Ordinance 《土地業權條例》

30. Searches
(Not yet in operation)
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person may—
(a) on the presentation to the Registrar of an application for a search or inspection; and
(b) in accordance with the regulations,
have made available any thing required under section 4, 5 or 6 to be kept in the Land Registry.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not operate to entitle a person to—
(a) have made available any thing referred to in section 4, 5 or 6 in a manner not expressly permitted under the regulations (or, where more than one manner is so permitted, in any one such manner as the Registrar decides);
(b) have made available, in respect of the application concerned, any document for the purposes of, or as a result of, the search to which the application relates other than any such document expressly permitted to be so made available under the regulations.

### Land Titles Ordinance 《土地業權條例》

31. Evidence
(Not yet in operation)
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, a document purporting to be a copy, print or extract—
(a) of or from—
(i) the Title Register (including any part thereof);
(ii) the applications register (including any part thereof);
(iii) any document, or any microfilm, image record or other record of a document, kept in the Land Registry under section 6 (including any part thereof);
(iv) any specified form (including any part thereof);
(v) any other document (including any part thereof)—
(A) which is filed or deposited in the Land Registry under the provisions of this Ordinance or any other enactment; or
(B) which otherwise belongs to the Land Registry; or
(vi) any endorsement on the Title Register, the applications register or any document, record or form referred to in subparagraph (iii), (iv) or (v); and
(b) bearing a certificate, with the signature or the printed signature of the Registrar, or of any other person authorized by him in that behalf, certifying that the document is a true copy, print or extract,
shall, subject to the Stamp Duty Ordinance (Cap. 117), and to the same extent as the original of the document, be admissible in evidence in any proceedings before any court on its production without further proof and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the court shall presume that—
(c) the signature or the printed signature and certification to the document is that of the Registrar or a person authorized by him in that behalf; and
(d) the document is a true and correct copy, print or extract.
(2) No solicitor, trustee or other person in a fiduciary position shall be liable in damages for any loss occasioned by the inaccuracy of a document first-mentioned in subsection (1).
(3) Subject to subsection (4), no process for compelling the production of any thing referred to in subsection (1)(a) shall be issued from any court—
(a) except with the leave of the court; and
(b) unless the process has a statement on it to the effect that it is issued with the leave of the court.
(4) A court shall not grant leave for a process referred to in subsection (3) to be issued if it is satisfied that a document first-mentioned in subsection (1) is sufficient for the purposes of the process.
(5) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the admissibility of any evidence which would be admissible apart from the provisions of this section.