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No. 11.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1899]
Ref 5.101+2 of Ord.11/02
ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1899.
A.D. 1899. AN ORDINANCE to make provision with respect to Piers.
Ordinance No. 87 of 1899, with Ordinance No. 17 of 1900 incorporated.
Short title.
[1st January, 1900.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Piers Ordinance, 1899.
Interpretation of terms.
2. In this Ordinance-
"Pier" includes every pier and wharf of whatever description, except a pier or wharf belonging to the Government of this Colony or to the Naval or Military Authorities, and except any pier or wharf coming under the provisions of Johnson's Wharves and Piers Ordinance, 1884, or of Chater's Wharves and Piers Ordinance, 1884:
"Crown foreshore" includes Crown land covered with water below ordinary low-water mark,
3.-(1.) From and including the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, rent in accordance with the scale specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall (except in cases where rent on a higher scale is now payable to the Government by agreement) be payable to the Colonial Treasurer for the use of the Government of this Colony by the owner for the time being of any pier, whether already erected or hereafter to be erected or re-erected over Crown foreshore, notwithstanding any agreement or understanding between the Government and the owner of such pier or any of his predecessors in title to the effect that no rent or rent on a lower scale should be payable in respect of such pier.
(2.) Such rent shall be payable in advance by equal monthly instalments, and, in the case of a new pier, shall commence to be payable from the date of the granting of the licence or lease therefor: Provided, nevertheless, that no rent shall be chargeable in respect of any pier which is removed before the expiration of one month from the date of the granting of the licence or lease for its erection and that rent for such a pier, if paid, shall be refunded.
(3.) In the case of the extension of an existing pier, the extra rent for the extra land to be covered by such extension shall commence to be payable from the date of the granting of the licence or lease for such extension.