1967 Ed.]
Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
[CAP. 241
P 47
[Subsidiary]
PART VI.
POSSESSION OR CONTROL OF PROPERTY,
UNDERTAKING OR EMPLOYMENT.
67. (1) A competent authority if it appears to that authority
Taking possession of land. to be necessary or expedient in the public interest may take or authorize in writing the taking of possession of any land and may give such directions as appear to be necessary for the taking and maintaining possession of such land and for the eviction therefrom of any person who is, enters or remains thereon without the consent of the competent authority.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such directions may authorize any police officer to break open, enter forcibly and remain on any land the taking possession of which has been authorized by the competent authority and to evict forcibly from such land any persons that the competent authority may specify or any persons other than such persons as the competent authority may specify.
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(3) Whether or not any specified direction has been given under paragraph (2), a police officer may take such steps and use such force as appears to him to be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with any direction given under paragraph (1).
(4) While any land is in the possession of a competent authority by virtue of this regulation, the land may, notwithstanding any restriction imposed on the use thereof (whether by any Ordinance or other instrument or otherwise), be used by, or under the authority of, the competent authority in the public interest, and the competent authority, so far as appears to it to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the taking of possession or use of the land in pursuance of this paragraph, may--
(a) do, or authorize persons using the land as aforesaid to do, in relation to the land, anything which any person having an interest in the land would be entitled to do by virtue of that interest; and
(b) by order provide for prohibiting or restricting the exercise of rights of way over the land, and of other rights relating thereto which are enjoyed by any person, whether by virtue of an interest in land or otherwise.
(5) The owner or occupier of any land shall, if requested by or on behalf of a competent authority so to do, furnish to such authority or person as may be specified in the request such information in his possession relating to the land (being information which may reasonably be demanded of him in connexion with the execution of this regulation) as may be so specified.