CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION.
No. 10 of 1900.
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also in respect of damage to business due to removal, and to award compensation in respect of such resumption or extinction or damage to all persons claiming compensation to whom the Board may find compensation to be due;
(2) to award costs (including remuneration to the members of the Board and to the clerk to the Board determined under section 6) in its discretion, either for or against the Crown or for or against any parties claiming compensation, such costs, if desired by the Crown or any party, to be taxed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
(3) all such powers as are vested in the Supreme Court or in a judge on the occasion of any action or suit in respect of the following matters:—
(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise as it may think fit;
(b) compelling the production of any documents;
(c) punishing persons guilty of contempt;
(d) ordering an inspection of any premises; and (e) entering upon and viewing any premises.
11.-(1) When any property is resumed, a Board in determining the compensation to be paid and in estimating the value of the land resumed and of any buildings thereon,
may—
(a) take into consideration the nature and existing condition of the property, and the probable duration of the buildings in their existing state, and the state of repair thereof; and
(b) decline to make any compensation for any addition to or improvement of the property made after the date of the publication in the Gazette of the notice of intended resumption, or after the notice by the Colonial Secretary under section 5, as the case may be, (unless such addition or improvement was necessary for the maintenance of the property in a proper state of repair):
Provided that, in the case of any interest acquired after the date of such publication, no separate estimate of the value thereof shall be made so as to increase the amount of compensation.
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* As amended by No. 14 of 1921.