For enhancing customer experience and user-friendliness, the following features will be introduced on 29 June 2024:

• To support online payment by Faster Payment System (FPS); and

• To add a new “View Enable/Disable Retain Customer Information History” function in the “Enquire Login ID(s) Status” page for subscribers.

To improve the user friendliness of the web-based memorial form, the LR will release enhanced features and improved user interface on 29 June 2024. Some salient features are:

• Provide auto-fill function for preparing lodgement list using memorial data;

• Provide the save/load function for form data for further processing; and

• Provide hyperlink access to the “Demo Video” and Excel template for data import feature of the form from the menu bar.

Please visit the “Frequently Asked Questions” or demonstration videos posted on the e-Memorial Form webpage on the LR’s website. For any enquiries, please contact us at 2867 5704.

The latest editions of the SI and CRT were released for sale on 30 April 2024. They are handy tools to help customers correlate property addresses, building names or lot numbers for conducting land searches.

The price of the SI and CRT on compact disc is HK$370 each. The respective licence fees are HK$2,960 for a computer network linked to less than 50 terminals and HK$5,920 if linked to 50 terminals or more. You can obtain the information leaflets and order forms here.

The SI and CRT are also available online on the LR website for free browsing. Both publications are also accessible through the hyperlink on the IRIS Online Services website.

We continue to actively prepare for the implementation of the title registration system on newly granted land first (“new land first” proposal).

The Land Titles Ordinance Steering Committee meeting was held on 19 February 2024. At the meeting, we updated key stakeholders and relevant Government departments on the latest developments and the legislative timetable.

We are preparing an Amendment Bill to implement the “new land first” proposal. In parallel, other preparatory work including preparing draft subsidiary legislation and development of a new information technology system is underway.