Short Description:
The Land Registry is a public office for the registration of instruments affecting land under the Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128).
Quick Tips:
- Only instruments affecting land are registrable. Most of these are legal instruments. In general, an instrument affects land if it:
- calls for a change of land title, e.g. Assignment, Deed of Gift; or
- prevents a change of land title, e.g. Injunction Order and other Court Order; or
- itself creates an interest in land, e.g. Declaration of Trust, Easement.
- Instruments presented for registration must be in A4 size, and printed or written in black ink on one side only of white paper or azure ledger paper. The detailed requirements are set out in Land Registry Circular Memorandum No. 15/96.
- The registration fees for different instruments can be found in the Land Registration Fees Regulations (Cap. 128B).
- Delivery of an instrument and memorial into the Land Registry for registration may be effected by personal delivery or sending the instrument and memorial by post.
- The date of receipt of an instrument and memorial sent to the Land Registry by post shall
(a) where the instrument and memorial is received by the Land Registry before 1:30 p.m. on any day on which the Land Registry is open to the public, be that day; (b) where the instrument and memorial is received by the Land Registry after 1:30 p.m. on any day on which the Land Registry is open to the public, be deemed to be the next following day on which the Land Registry is open to the public.