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[No. 2-14.6.32.-7.]
C.S.O. 7 in 4299/31.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordi-
nance, 1901.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreshores and Short title. Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
2. Section 3 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, Substitution 1901, is repealed and the following section is substituted for Ordinance therefor :-
No. 15 of 1901, s. 3.
leases of
and to award
cases.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant Power to and to agree to grant such Crown leases for any term not grant Crown exceeding seventy-five years (renewable on the usual terms), foreshore or for such longer term as the Secretary of State may authorise, and sea bed, of the foreshore and sea bed within the limits of the waters of compensation the Colony, and of Crown land covered with water in any tidal in certain river or channel connected with such waters, as may be declar- ed by the Governor in Council to be expedient to be granted for the purpose of reclamation, harbour improvement, or build- ing, or for the construction of docks, slips, piers, or wharves, or in view of the requirements of manufactures, commerce, or traffic, or for any other purpose whatsoever : Provided always that, before any such declaration is made, the terms of the lease proposed to be made, with a description of the property intended to be demised, shall be inserted in every ordinary issue of the Gazette during a period of three months and shall be published by proclamation in the Chinese language, which proclamation shall be publicly posted in some suitable place near the site of the said property, together with a notice calling upon all persons having objections to the granting of such lease, and also all persons, who deem that their property may be injuriously affected by reason of the access of such property to the sea being interfered with by the granting of any such lease and who claim compensation in respect thereof, to send in their objections or claims in writing to the Director of Public Works before the expiration of the said period of three months.
(2) All such objections shall be duly considered by the Governor in Council. On such consideration the Governor in Council shall have regard to the objections and also to the public benefit which would accrue by over-ruling them.
(3) Any person, who shall deem that his property may be injuriously affected by any such Crown lease by reason of the access of such property to the sea being interfered with, and who claims compensation in respect thereof, shall deliver to the Director of Public Works particulars in writing of such injurious affecting and of his claims in respect thereof within the period of three months referred to in sub-section (1); and the Governor may, if he thinks fit, enter into an agreement with any claimant for the settlement or compromise of any claim.