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G.F. 323
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Explanatory Memorandum
This Bill seeks
to provide in one enactment all of the statutory
powers which may be needed in the course of
building the Mass Transit Railway, including
in particular the power to resume land and create
easements; and
to give certain rights to compensation for
loss or damage arising therefrom.
Part II Resumption of land and creation of easements
Clause 3: Plans of the "railway area" are to
be prepared by the Director (which term throughout
the Bill means the Director of Public Works or any
public officer authorized by him). The "railway area"
is that in which land may need to be resumed or easements created for the purpose of the railway. The plans are
to be promulgated by deposit in the Land Office,
inspection at certain Government offices and notification
in the Gazette. There is power to amend a plan. No
one may object to or challenge the inclusion of land in
the railway area.
Clause 4: The Governor may order resumption of land within the railway area to take effect at the expiration of not less than one month's notice. Upon the expiration of the notice the land reverts to the Crown except where an undivided share in land and
appurtenant occupation rights are involved in which
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