1096
Compensation to bear interest.
Payment of
in case of
No. 10 of 1900.
CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION.
16. All sums of money awarded and all costs against the Crown, if any, shall, as soon as practicable after the award is published, be paid out of the public revenues, and all sums awarded, exclusive of costs, shall bear interest at the rate of eight dollars per cent. per annum from the date of the resumption of the land until payment.
17. When the owner of any land which has been resumed compensation is absent from the Colony or cannot be found, or within six months from the date when the amount of compensation shall have been determined makes no claim to the same, or is in the opinion of the Governor unable to give an effectual discharge for the same, the Governor may direct payment of the compensation to be made to such other person on behalf of the owner as he shall think proper, subject to any conditions or not, and the receipt of such person shall be a valid and effectual discharge for the same in the same manner as if payment had been made to the owner.
Effect as
evidence of notice of
18. In any notice to resume any land, it shall be sufficient to state that the resumption of such land is required for a public purpose, without stating the particular purpose for which the land is required; and a notice containing such statement shall be conclusive evidence that the resumption is for a public purpose.
Arrangement
buildings or
reconstruct them.
19. Whenever the buildings or dwellings on any land are of insanitary construction as regards conditions of light and air, the Governor may, notwithstanding any of the powers of resumption herein contained or prior to the exercise of any such powers, permit the owner of such buildings or dwellings to reconstruct or rebuild the same or any part thereof, on such terms and conditions and subject to such security being given for the proper carrying out of such reconstruction or rebuilding as the Governor may think fit.
Board to regulate proceedings.
*
power of
20. Any Board may make rules for the conduct of proceedings before it.
Saving of
21. This Ordinance shall not be deemed to prevent the exercise by His Majesty of any power of resumption contained in any Crown lease.
resumption
lease.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.