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LAND TITLES ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 26 of 2004
A1405
(zr) prescribing anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(zs) providing for the better carrying into effect of this Ordinance;
(zt) providing for such incidental, consequential, evidential, transitional, savings and supplemental provisions as are necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving full effect to this Ordinance.

(2) Any regulations made under subsection (1)(zg) or (zh) may specify that a thing referred to in that subsection may be made available or provided, as the case may be, in such form and by such method as the Registrar thinks fit.

(3) Any regulations made under this section may—

(a) empower the Secretary to grant exemptions from the regulations, either generally or in a particular case;
(b) make different provisions for different circumstances and provide for a particular case or class of case;
(c) be made so as to apply only in such circumstances as are prescribed by the regulations.

(4) Without prejudice to section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1), any regulations made under this section may include regulations which provide for transitional or savings provisions in respect of any of the enactments repealed or amended by this Ordinance.

(5) Any regulations made under this section may prescribe offences in respect of contraventions of the regulations, and may provide for the imposition in respect of any such offence of a fine at level 3 and of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years.

103. Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2

(1) The Secretary may, with the approval of the Legislative Council, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1.

(2) The Secretary may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 2.

104. Consequential amendments

(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are amended as set out in that Schedule.

(2) The Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128) is amended as set out in Schedule 4.

(3) The Secretary may, with the approval of the Legislative Council, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 3 or 4.