Hong Kong Ordinances

LAND REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 16

Case of lis pendens not registered

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2 No lis pendens
shall be registered in the Registry of the High Court, or elsewhere than in
the Land Registry; and a lis pendens not registered in the said office shall
not bind any purchaser or mortgagee of the estate intended to be thereby
affected.

(10 of 1856 s. 3 incorporated. Amended 50 of 1911 Schedule; 56 of 1992 s. 7; 8
of 1993 s. 2; 25 of 1998 s. 2)