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co-owners of the land. There is also the unsatisfactory position which this would create technically on the title since the Crown itself is the reversioner on every Crown lease.
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Although Part II of the bill makes no specific reference to compensation (this is dealt with in Part IV of the bill), Honourable Members will wish to note that any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if the land had been resumed under the Crown' Lands Resumption Ordinance (Chapter 124) may claim compensation under Item: 1 in Part I of the Schedule for the loss of land resumed (which for this purpose includes shares in land vested in the Colonial Treasurer Incorporated). Honourable Members will also wish to note that, under clause 8, resumptions may be extended to include land beyond the railway area, in circumstances where the resumption of a piece of land within the railway area renders the former piece of land incapable of being put to any profitable use. Thus clause 8 caters for such extraneous effects of resumptions as where the owner of a piece of resumed land is denied access to a piece of adjoining land in his ownership or in which he has some other legal interest. In such cases the Crown could resume the adjoining land and the owner could claim compensation under Item 1 in Part I of the Schedule. A further by-product of resumptions is that it could extinguish certain legal rights or easements enjoyed by the owner of an adjoining piece of land the value of which could be reduced. Where this should arise, the adjoining owner would be entitled to claim compensation under Item 3 in Part I of the Schedule,
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Consequences of creating easements. Upon the creation of an easement, which will be required mainly for the purpose of underground tunnels, the owner of the affected land may claim compensation either for the amount by which the open market value of his land is reduced or a disturbance payment or both under Item 2 in Part I of the Schedule.
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The third part of the bill creates further powers for the purposes of building, operating, maintaining and improving the railway. Thus:
(a) clause 10 enables the Governor to authorise the
closure and substantial alteration of streets and other public works which could affect public and private rights;
(b) clause 12 enables the Director of Public Works to
carry out remedial and preventive works (e.g. the underpinning of structural foundations to buildings);
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