1692 THE HONGKONG GON
MENT GAZETTE, 28TH OCTOBER, 1899.
No. 30 or 1899.
An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands
Resumption Ordinance, 1889.
LS
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
[24th October, 1899.]
Short title.
Amendment
of preamble to Ordinance 23 of 1889,
Amendment of section 2 of Ordinance 23 of 1889.
Amendment
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the Crown Lands Resumption Amendment Ordinance, 1899.
2. The preamble to Ordinance No. 23 of 1889 is hereby amended so as to read as follows :—
Whereas it is expedient that the Governor should be empowered to acquire or resume any land and buildings compulsorily for any "public purpose" as defined by this Ordinance, and whereas it is expe- dient that the duty of determining the value of land and buildings so acquired or resumed and of fixing the compensatiou to be awarded in respect thereof, should (notwithstanding any clause contained in Crown Leases) be vested in a Board of Arbitrators. 3. Section 2 of Ordinance 23 of 1889 is hereby amended as follows:-
(i.) By substituting in place of the words "Crown land under lease from the Crown or any part or scetion thereof" the following words, namely:-
"land of whatever description or any part or section thereof, which is situated within the limits of the Colony as enlarged by a Convention dared the 9th of June, 1898, between Her Majesty the Queen and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, and shall include the buildings (if any) erected on such land or on any part or section thereof;" and
(ii) By adding the following paragraphs at the end
of such section, namely:
The word " resume "shall include acquiring, and the word "resumption" shall include acquisi- tion.
The expression "resumption for a public purpose"
as used in this Ordinance shall include-
(i.) The compulsory resumption of insanitary properties by the Government for the pur- pose of erecting improved houses or dwel- lings thereon, and
(i.) The compulsory resumption of any land for any purpose connected with the Naval or Military Forces of this Colony, and (iii.) The compulsory resumption of any land for any purpose of whatsoever description, whether ejusdem generis with either of the above purposes or not, which the Governor- in-Council may decide to be a public purpose.
4. Sub-section (i.) of section 3 of Ordinance 23 of 1889 of ss. (i.) of is hereby amended by substituting for the words "expedient
in the interest of the public" the following words, namely:-
s. 3 of 23 of 1889.
Amendment
"required for a public purpose."
5. Section 14 of Ordinance 23 of 1889 is hereby amend- of s. 14 of 28 ed by the insertion after the words "state that" and before the words "such laud" of the following words, namely, "the resumption of."
of 1889.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 11th day of October, 1899.
R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 24th day of October, 1899.
J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.