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(2) A cautioner under a registered caution against conversion who fails, without reasonable excuse, to apply to the Land Registrar for the withdrawal of the caution against conversion within a reasonable period of time after the ground on which it was registered ceases to exist, shall be liable, in an action for damages at the suit of a person referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b), to pay compensation to that person for any damage sustained thereby, in such amount as to the Court of First Instance appears just.”.

6. Section added

The following is added—

“27A. Power of Land Registrar to specify forms

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Land Registrar may specify the form of any document required under this Ordinance to be in the specified form.

(2) A form specified under this section shall be—

(a) completed in accordance with such directions and instructions as are specified in the form;

(b) accompanied by such documents (including instruments, certificates, duplicates of the form and statutory declarations) as are specified in the form; and

(c) if the completed form is required to be provided to the Land Registrar or any other person, so provided in the manner, if any, specified in the form.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the Land Registrar’s power under subsection (1) may be exercised in such a way as to—

(a) include in the specified form of any document referred to in that subsection a statutory declaration—

(i) to be made by the person completing the form; and

(ii) as to whether the particulars contained in the form are true and correct to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief;

(b) specify 2 or more forms of any document referred to in that subsection, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular circumstances or particular cases, as the Land Registrar thinks fit.”.