MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY (LAND RESUMPTION Ord. No. 66/74
AND RELATED PROVISIONS)
(2) Every person referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to receive notice of an order under section 4(1) if the Director—
(a) causes a notice of resumption conforming to subsection
(3) and in both Chinese and English to be-
(i) affixed to some conspicuous part of the land or, in a case where only land lying wholly beneath the surface is to be resumed by the order, the surface thereof or any building thereon; and
(ii) published once in the Gazette; and
(b) makes a copy of the order and, where appropriate a plan of the land available for inspection by the public free of charge at such offices of the Government, during the hours when those offices are normally open to the public, as the Director thinks fit.
(3) A notice of resumption shall-
(a) describe the land to be resumed and state that an order has been made under section 4(1) in respect thereof;
(b) state where and at what times a copy of the order and, where appropriate, a plan of the land may be inspected in pursuance of subsection (2)(b);
(c) state the day on which the notice was affixed to the
land;
(d) state the period of notice specified by the Governor
under section 4(2);
(e) declare that upon the expiry of that period the land described in the notice shall by virtue of section 4(3) revert to the Crown or vest in The Colonial Treasurer Incorporated, as the case may require, for the purposes of the railway; and
(f) state that any person entitled to compensation under this Ordinance may serve a written claim upon the Director.
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creation of
6. (1) The Governor may by order direct that easements Governor in, under or over land in the railway area shall be created in may order favour of the Crown for the purposes of and incidental to the easements. railway.
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