1982 Ed.]
Crown Land
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PART V
PRIVATE STREETS
14. (1) If a Crown lease, or an agreement for surrender relating to leased land, contains a provision that the lessee shall, when required, hand back any private street to the Crown free of cost, the Authority may, by notice in the Gazette, declare the private street, or such part thereof as may be specified in the notice, to be a public street.
(2) The Authority shall, within 7 days after the publication of a notice under subsection (1), register a copy thereof in the Land Office together with a plan showing the land declared by such notice to be a public street.
(3) Upon the registration under subsection (2) in the Land Office of a copy of a notice published under subsection (1)---
(a) all rights and obligations of the lessee in, upon or over the private street, or the part of the private street specified in the notice, shall be extinguished; and
(b) the private street, or such part of the private street, shall vest in the Crown free from the rights of any person in the same manner and to the same effect as if it had been surrendered to the Crown.
15. No action shall be brought or continued, and no compensation shall be payable, in respect of the extinguishment under section 14(3) of the rights of any person in, upon or over the private street or such part of the private street.
Vesting of private streets in the Crown.
No action to lie in respect of extinguishment or rights in private street.
PART VI
GENERAL
15A. Where any Crown lease contains a condition to the effect that any matter or thing may not be done without the approval or consent of the Governor in Council, the condition shall be deemed to include a provision that the power of the Governor in Council to grant approval or give consent may be exercised by the Governor.
(Added, 72 of 1973, s. 2)
16. Any person who obstructs an authorized person exercising any power, performing any duty, or carrying out any function, under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
16A. Any person who makes a statement-
(a) in reply to any question put to him under or for the purposes of this Ordinance; or
Power of approval by Governor in Council in Crown leases.
Obstruction.
False statements.
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