1894.]
TAIPINGSHAN RESUMPTION.
[No. 2.
For the purposes of arbitration the Board shall have the following Powers of
subject to the proviso in section 5, to determine the compensation to be paid to the owner of any land and to every other person having an interest in any land or house resumed under this Ordinance or in respect of the extinction of any right or easement caused by such resumption, regard being had not only to the value of the land taken and of any houses thereon, but also to any damage or injury resulting to the owner of the land resumed by reason of the severance of such land from other land of such owner contiguous thereto, and to award compensation in respect of such resumption or extinction to all persons claiming compensation to whom the Board may find compensation to be due;
(2) to award costs, in its discretion, either for or against the Crown or for or against any parties claiming compensation, such costs in case of difference to be settled by the Registrar of the Court, subject to the final determination of the Board: Provided always that if the Governor has offered in writing, prior to notice of the hearing of a claim having been given to the parties by the Board, to pay to any person interested an amount of compensation equal to or greater than the amount, if any, awarded to such person by the Board, no costs of the arbitration in respect thereof shall in any event be awarded against the Crown;
(3) all such powers as are now or may be hereafter vested in the Court or in any Judge thereof on the occasion of any action or suit in respect of the following matters:-
(a) the enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise as it may think fit;
(b) the compelling the production of any documents; (c) the punishing persons guilty of contempt; and
(d) the ordering an inspection of premises; and
(e) to make and publish all such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the conduct of all proceedings before it.
Board.
Form and notice by service of
1. Every notice under the hand of the Chairman of the Board may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any action or suit for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or compelling the production of documents; and any warrant issued for the purpose of enforcing any such notice aforesaid shall be under the hand of the Chairman and shall authorize the imprisonment of any offender for a period not exceeding ... months; and every notice, order, or warrant of the Board may be served and executed in the same manner as notices, orders, and warrants ...
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