Q4
[Subsidiary]
Requisition of property other than land.
CAP. 241] Emergency (Requisition) Regulations.
[1967 Ed.
having an interest in the land would be entitled to do by virtue of that interest; and
(b) may 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.
(6) A competent authority may, to such extent and subject to such restriction as such authority thinks proper, delegate all or any of the functions of such authority under this regulation to any specified person or class of persons.
4. (1) In this regulation the term "chattel" includes any substance, vehicle or animal and any launch, lighter, boat or other small craft, and any ship, vessel or aircraft but does not include currency, gold securities or negotiable instruments.
(2) A competent authority may, if it appears to that authority to be necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, requisition any chattel, and may give such directions as appear to such authority to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the requisition. Any person contravening any such direction shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Where any chattel is requisitioned, under this regulation, a competent authority may use or deal with or authorize the use or dealing with the chattel for such purposes and in such manner as such authority thinks expedient in the public interest and may hold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the chattel as if such authority were the owner thereof and as if the chattel were free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation, and, in a case where the chattel requisitioned is a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery, may acquire it by serving on the owner thereof a notice stating that such authority has acquired it in pursuance of this regulation. When a notice of acquisition has been served, then, at the beginning of the day on which the notice is served-
(a) the vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery shall vest in the Government free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation; and
(b) the period of the requisition thereof shall end.
(4) In any case in which the chattel requisitioned is a chattel other than a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery...