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2(1.) On complaint made before a Magistrate by three or more householders that a house in their immediate neighbourhood is used as a common brothel or lodging-house for prostitutes or disorderly persons of any description, to the annoyance of the respectable inhabitants of the vicinity, a Magistrate shall have and exercise summary jurisdiction in respect thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to issue a summons to the owner or tenant of the house whereof complaint is made, and on the hearing of the complaint, if the Magistrate is satisfied that the house is used in the manner complained of and is a source of annoyance or offence to the neighbours, he may order the owner or tenant to discontinue such use of it.
(2) If the owner or tenant fails to comply with such order within such time as may be fixed by the order, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifteen dollars for every day that the house is so used after the time fixed by the order.
(3.) The provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to any other proceedings or remedies, civil or criminal, which may be taken in respect of the matters aforesaid.
(4) The provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, relating to summary procedure shall apply to proceedings under this Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1894.
ORDINANCE for the summary Resumption of certain Crown Lands situate in the Taipingshan District of the City of Victoria and for other purposes.
[15th October, 1894.]
WHEREAS the Crown Leases of lands in this Colony usually provide that the lands thereby demised may be resumed by the Crown if required for the improvement of the Colony or for any other public purposes on three months' notice being given and on payment of full and fair compensation to be assessed by the Director of Public Works; and whereas, if such assessment is not satisfactory, there is no means of obtaining possession of the land except by suit at law; and whereas by the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889,* it is provided that, whenever the Governor-in-Council decides that the resumption of any land is expedient in the interest of the public, it shall be lawful for the Governor to enter into private negotiations with the owner of such land for the purchase thereof, and upon failure of such negotiations to give written notice that such lands will be resumed upon the expiration of four months from publication of such notice; and whereas the Colony and especially the Taipingshan District of the City Ordinance No. 23 of 1889, repealed by the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900,
A.D. 1894. Ordinance No. 8 of 1894.