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LAND TITLES ORDINANCE '''88. Recovery of indemnity paid'''

(1) Where an indemnity is paid for a loss, the Government shall be entitled to recover the amount paid from any persons who have caused or substantially contributed to the loss by their fraud, in proportion to their respective contributions to the loss.

(2) The Government shall be entitled to enforce any express or implied covenant or other right which the person who is indemnified would have been entitled to enforce in relation to the matter in respect of which indemnity has been paid.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that subsections (1) and (2) shall not operate to prevent a person to whom an indemnity has been paid from taking any legal proceedings or enforcing any right to recover any amount of damages that, by virtue of the operation of section 85(1)(a), he has not been able to recover from the Land Titles Indemnity Fund.

89. Discrepancy in area and boundary

As between the Government and the owner of registered land, no claim to indemnity under this Part shall arise, and no legal proceedings in respect thereof shall be commenced or maintained, on account of—
 * (a) any surplus or deficiency in the area or measurement of the land disclosed by a survey (whether or not by an authorized land surveyor referred to in section 44) showing an area or measurement differing from the area or measurement—
 * (i) disclosed on any subsequent survey of the land; or
 * (ii) shown in the Title Register, on any Government lease or on any plan, or on any microfilm, image record or other record of any plan, kept in the Land Registry under section 6;
 * (b) any boundary of the land disclosed by a survey (whether or not by an authorized land surveyor referred to in section 44) showing a boundary differing from any boundary—
 * (i) disclosed on any subsequent survey of the land; or
 * (ii) shown in the Title Register, on any Government lease or on any plan, or on any microfilm, image record or other record of any plan, kept in the Land Registry under section 6; and
 * (c) any discrepancy in the area or measurement of the boundaries, whether upon a survey or otherwise, arising from the application or the determination of the boundaries of the lot under section 94.