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The Land Registry has produced the 40th edition of the Index of Streets, House Numbers and Lots in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon and the 9th edition of the New Territories Lot/Address Cross Reference Table (CRT) on compact discs for convenient retrieval.
The street index and the CRT are designed to make land searches of properties easy by correlating available property addresses and buildings with land lot numbers. The new editions will go on sale next Monday (April 28).
Since the 39th edition of the street index, 890 amendments have been made and eight new streets and 64 new lots/sections/subsections have been added to the street index data. As for the CRT, 3,450 amendments have been made and 17 new streets and 1,377 new lots/sections/subsections have been added since the 8th edition.
The street index and the CRT each costs $250 per compact disc.
Licences for the use of the 40th edition of street index and the 9th edition of CRT compact discs on computer networks are also available for sale at the same time. Licence fees are $2,000 and $4,000 for computer networks linked with less than 50 terminals and 50 terminals or more respectively.
Purchasers of compact discs and licences must first complete the order forms, which are available at the information counter of the Land Registry's Customer Centre on 19/F, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, the New Territories Search Offices, the Land Registry's homepage (http://www.landreg.gov.hk), or by fax through the Customer Services Hotline 3105 0000.
The ordered compact discs and licences for the street index and CRT will be available for sale at the Customer Centre and the New Territories Search Offices.
For enquiries, please call the street index and CRT Help Desk or the Customer Service Manager at 3105 0000.
Ends/Monday, April 21, 2008
Issued at HKT 16:00
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