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[No. 7-2.3.39.-1.]
Å BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to authorize an undertaking for the reclamation of an area of sea bed to abut the Jubilee Street Ferry Pier approaches and Connaught Road to the Eastward of such approaches between Queen Victoria Street and Pottinger Street and for construction of a pier extending seawards from such reclamation and also for the construc- tion of a temporary pier between the said reclamation and Douglas Wharf.
1936.
WHEREAS it is provided by section 4 of the Public Ordinance Reclamation Validation and Clauses Ordinance, 1936, that in any future Ordinance authorizing any undertaking for reclama- tion or other works of a public nature over and upon unleased Crown foreshore and sea bed, provisionally and subject to the definitive approval of the Governor in Council, the provisions of Part II of that Ordinance shall be deemed to be incorporated unless expressly varied or excepted by such Ordinance :
AND WHEREAS it is considered desirable to authorize provisionally and subject to such approval certain of such undertakings:
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 Queen Victoria Short title. Street Eastward Reclamation and Piers Ordinance, 1939.
of Public
2. The Director of Public Works is authorized, provision- Director ally and subject to the definitive approval of the Governor in Works Council, to construct the undertakings set out in the Schedule. given
provisional authority
to construct certain works.
Schedule.
3. The provisions of section 6 of the Public Reclamations Validation and Clauses Ordinance, 1936,, shall, in so far as it relates to the temporary pier described in the third item in the Schedule, be deemed to be incorporated in this Ordinance for so long only as such temporary pier continues to be required and maintained.
SCHEDULE.
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1. A reclamation, approximately 41,650 square feet in area, to abut the Jubilee Street Ferry Pier approaches and Connaught Road to the Eastward of such approaches between Queen Victoria Street
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