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Short title.
Interpretation of terms.
Resumption of certain specified lots of land. First Schedule.
Second Schedule.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES of HONGKONG: [A.D. 1894.
Whereas the District of Taipingshan in the Colony of Hong Kong and Victoria has recently been visited by a formidable epidemic disease known as the Bubonic Plague; and whereas certain portions of the said District have been found to be in a highly insanitary condition, and the inhabitants thereof have, by the orders of the Sanitary Board, been removed therefrom, the houses closed, and the streets and approaches thereto blocked up; and whereas it is expedient for the prevention of such visitation in the future and for the improvement of the Colony, that the houses or some of them in the said portions of the said district should be pulled down and destroyed, and that the area or a portion thereof should be laid out afresh and re-drained; and whereas the procedure under the terms of the Crown Leases is unsatisfactory and one-sided and may lead to protracted law suits, and the procedure under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889, involves protracted negotiations and long delays, and both procedures are unsuitable to the urgency of the case:
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance, 1894.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,
"The Court" means the Supreme Court.
"The Crown" means Her Majesty, her heirs and successors.
"House" includes any building of any kind whatsoever, rows, blocks or groups of houses, together with any yard, out-houses, and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith.
"Street" includes any road, court, alley, pathway, by-lane, or square.
"Owner" includes all Crown Lessees, assignees of the whole or any portion, section, or sub-section of any lot, mortgagees in possession and trustees in whose names any land resumed under this Ordinance stands registered in the Land Office of the Colony.
3.-(1.) The lots of land mentioned and described in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, now held under lease from the Crown, are hereby resumed to and revested in the Crown as from the 1st day of June, 1894, and the rights of the Crown Lessees thereof, their executors, administrators, or assigns, and of all other persons claiming any right or interest in, to, or over the said lots of land or any of them or any portion thereof are hereby declared to have absolutely ceased and determined as from the said 1st day of June, 1894.
(2) The public roads and streets mentioned and described in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance are hereby declared to have been closed from the said 1st day of June, 1894, to public traffic to the extent in the said Second Schedule mentioned.