| Land Registration 
              System | 
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| The Land Registration System comprises the Land Registry's fully 
                computerised system for the storage of historical and current 
                information on property particulars, including owners' names and 
                encumbrances. In August 2003, a standing programme was developed 
                for the generation of monthly statistics on unsold flats in relation 
                to the flat supply of the property market for the Housing Department.   | 
| Direct Access 
              Services | 
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| The Direct Access Services is an online land search facility 
                introduced in 1994. 79% of land searches and 70% of orders for 
                copies of documents are being made through this service.    | 
| Document Imaging 
              System | 
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| The Document Imaging System is the Land Registry's fully computerised 
                system for secure storage and retrieval of land documents. As 
                part of the ongoing IT improvements, the Openspool qserver (i.e. 
                the printing software) was upgraded in June 2003 and the fax servers 
                and formatting computers were tuned up in August and September 
                to improve the stability and efficiency of the system.    | 
| Street Index 
              Compact Disc | 
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| The Street Index was first compiled in the 19th century. In the 
                35th edition issued in 2003/04, 19 new streets and 163 new lots/sections/subsections 
                were added.     | 
| New Territories 
              Lot/Address Cross Reference Table Compact Disc | 
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| The New Territories Lot/Address Cross Reference Table (CRT) was 
                first compiled in 2000. In the 4th edition issued in 2003/04, 
                41 new streets and 3,166 new lots/sections/subsections were added. 
               In response to the customers' feedback, a licensing arrangement 
                for the sale of the 35th edition of Street Index and the 4th edition 
                of CRT was introduced for purchasers with more than one computer 
                terminal linked by a computer network. Under the new arrangement, 
                a licence fee of HK$2,000 for a computer network linked with less 
                than 50 terminals and HK$4,000 for a computer network linked with 
                50 terminals or more were charged. To tie in with the new licensing 
                arrangement, the sale of the 35th edition of Street Index was 
                synchronised with the 4th edition of CRT to April 2003. The price 
                was reduced from HK$300 to HK$250 for each copy.   | 
| Colour Imaging 
              of Plans | 
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| The Colour Imaging of Plans is one of the IT 
              improvement projects to enhance the quality of colour plans provided 
              to customers. The Land Registry completed digitising the plans attached 
              to over 3.5 million registered documents in 2002. Conversion of 
              incoming plans into electronic colour images is still underway. 
              All the converted images are now stored securely on CD-ROMs for 
              retrieval and will be migrated to the Integrated Registration Information 
              System in future. |