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(b) Domestic occupiers be they owners or tenants to offer
of rehousing in public housing estates unless they have
alternative accommodation; and
(c) Domestic occupiers be they owners or tenants to ex-gratia
compensation for their occupancy at rates between $17-22 per
sq.ft. half of which become payable on their agreement to
vacate the premises and the remainder after vacant possession
has been delivered.
However despite the fact that all the offending buildings are post-
war buildings, completely different considerations come into play:-
(a) It is debatable whether one can argue in this case that
Government is resuming land for a public purpose since
demolition work will only affect flats at the top of the
buildings which have exceeded the prescribed height limit.
In any case, Government action is necessitated by the
need to rectify the Enforcement of Airport (Control of
Obstructions) Ordinance rather than resumption for the
purpose of land development. Therefore it is doubtful whether
compensation policy formulated for the purpose of 'acquisition
and clearance of land' is appropriate in this case. In the
case of land resumption Government owes a moral obligation
to the affected residents to compensate them for the social
dislocation caused in the resumption exercise. But in
the case of enforcement of an ordinance, Government owes
no obligation at all since the offending buildings are in
obvious breach of a number of Ordinances and are therefore
illegal.
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