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(vi) Not to use or permit the pier to be used for the storage of materials or goods of any description, other than gear required for working the pier, or to permit such materials or goods to remain on the pier beyond the time actually required for transit purposes.
(vii) To comply with the provisions of all enactments now or hereafter in force regarding the construction, maintenance, lighting or use of piers.
(viii) To ensure the preservation of due order in the whole area included in the pier lease.
(ix) Not to exhibit or permit to be exhibited any advertisement on or above the pier without the written consent of the Governor.
(x) If the pier is at any time used for the embarkation of passengers, the lessee, if called upon to do so by the Governor, to erect and maintain such shelters or other structures as the Governor may require for the use of police and preventive officers for the inspection of passengers and their baggage.
9. Every pier lease will contain a proviso for re-entry on the breach or non- observance of the covenants or stipulations on the part of the lessee.
10. Leases will contain provision enabling the Crown, where a lessee fails to do this after due notice, to effect repairs or cleansing and to remove any unauthorized alterations, extensions or structures, and in each case to charge the cost involved to the lessee and to recover the same summarily. The lessees' covenants will be extended to comprise a covenant to pay any such costs on delivery of an account certified by the Director of Public Works and the right of re-entry will thus arise if the lessee fails to pay.
11. It may be found desirable to include a proviso for resumption on valuation such as appears in many Crown leases in addition to the powers of compulsory resumption under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance.
12. It is recognised that special conditions will arise in the case of privately owned piers which are used for public utility services.
13. Present rentals are in accordance with the scale prescribed in the schedule to the Piers Ordinance, 1899, and this scale continues in force until 31st December, 1949. The scale is open to criticism on the following grounds:
(a) It was devised fifty years ago and does not reflect present-day values. (b) The rentals throughout the harbour frontage of the City of Victoria are on the same scale irrespective of the position of the pier or the use to which it is put.
(c) The rentals for piers in places other than Victoria are one-half of the scale for the piers in Victoria irrespective of locality.
(d) The scale is not related to any basic rental per square foot, but is a fixed rental graded according to specified areas and after an area of 10,000 feet has been reached no additional rental is chargeable.
(e) This scale does not take into consideration advantages derived from locality, shelter or depth of water or the suitability of any of these factors to the use for which the pier is intended.
The scale at present applicable to Victoria for the smallest piers (500 ft. and under) works out at 24¢ per square foot against 12¢ per square foot for a pier of 10,000 square feet or 6¢ per square foot for a pier of 20,000 square feet. For a pier in the choicest position on the Kowloon promontory the rent would be the same as that for a pier of equal size at Taipo. For a pier at Kennedy Town the rental would be double that for a pier of equal size in the choicest position at Kowloon.
14. In future no graduated scale such as that set out in the schedule of the Piers Ordinance will be prescribed, but the rental will be assessed in each case according to the actual area of the pier in relation to a basic maximum rental which will be
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