1967 Ed.] Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
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(9) Where the Accountant General is satisfied that any vehicle in respect of which a licence to keep has been granted has, in exercise of the powers conferred by this regulation, been acquired before the expiration of the period of the validity of such licence, the Accountant General may authorize the refund to the person who at the date of such acquisition was the owner of the vehicle of a proportionate part of the fee paid for such licence in respect of such part of the period of its validity as remained unexpired at the date aforesaid, if a claim for such refund is made to him in writing by such person not later than three months after the date when such vehicle was acquired as aforesaid.
(10) Any reference in this regulation to articles shall be construed as including a reference to substances, vehicles, vessels or animals.
69. (1) The Commissioner of Police and any police officer generally or specially authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner of Police may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient in the interest of internal security or for the preservation of public order or safety, commandeer any means of transport and any property whatsoever other than land and may give such directions and take such steps as appear to him to be necessary to secure effective possession of the property commandeered and may for the purposes aforesaid use or deal with the property commandeered as if he were the owner thereof.
(2) Where possession has been taken of any property commandeered in pursuance of this regulation, then unless possession thereof is relinquished in accordance with paragraph (3), such property shall, as from the time when effective possession thereof has been taken, be deemed to have been acquired on behalf of the Governor in pursuance of emergency powers and compensation shall be payable accordingly.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police to relinquish possession of any property commandeered, which has not perished or been consumed or lost, either by delivering the same to the owner thereof or to the person from whom it was commandeered or by notification in the Gazette declaring to either of such persons as aforesaid that delivery thereof may be taken at a time and place to be specified in such notification.
(4) Where possession of any property commandeered in pursuance of this regulation is relinquished under paragraph (3), then-
(a) if such property was a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery, it shall be deemed to have been requisitioned on behalf of the Governor in exercise of emergency powers for the period of commandeerment and compensation shall be paid accordingly; and
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G.N.A. 103/52.
Power to commandeer property other than land. G.N.A. 174/50. In force, G.N.A. 182/50.
Discontinued IN 43/9