1967 Ed.]
Emergency (Requisition) Regulations.
[CAP. 241
(4) (a) A competent authority shall be the person appointed by name or by office by the Governor in writing for the purposes of all or any of these regulations or for any of the purposes of any particular regulation in which such expression occurs, and any person so appointed is in these regulations referred to as the competent authority. Any such appointment may be made in respect of the whole or any part of the Colony. Any appointment shall be deemed to extend to the whole Colony unless otherwise expressed.
(b) Where the holder of a designated office has been appointed to be the competent authority, then, unless express provision is made to the contrary, the appointment shall be deemed to extend to the person for the time being performing the duties of the office designated.
3. (1) A competent authority if it appears to that authority to be necessary or expedient so to do 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 whom the competent authority may specify or any persons other than such persons as the competent authority may specify.
(3) Whether or not any specific direction has been given under the preceding paragraph, 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 such authority to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the taking of possession or use of the land in pursuance of this paragraph—
(a) may do, or authorize persons using the land as aforesaid to do, in relation to the land, anything which any person
* Note. For competent authorities appointed under this section see Schedule.
Q3
[Subsidiary]
Taking possession of land.