PIERS.
No. 11 of 1899.
1077
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3.-(1) Rent in accordance with the scale specified in the schedule Scale of rents chargeable shall (except in cases where rent on a higher scale is now payable to for piers. the Government by agreement) be payable to the Treasury by the owner 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.
(4) In the case, however, of a temporary pier, it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to remit the whole or a portion of any rent which is chargeable under this section.
4.—(1) The scale of rents specified in the schedule shall continue Duration of in force until the end of the year 1924 and thereafter, unless altered scale of rents. as hereinafter provided.
(2) The Governor-in-Council may revise such scale, as he may deem expedient, as from and after 1st January, 1925.
(3) Such revised scale shall be notified in the Gazette, and shall be deemed to be substituted for the scale in the schedule, and shall be in force as from 1st January, 1925, to the end of the year 1949, after which date the scale shall be again subject to revision.
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5. No pier shall be erected or re-erected except with the leave of Erection of the Director of Public Works, and every such pier shall be of such new pier. design, dimensions, construction, and material as may be approved of by him.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.
† As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 16 of 1912. As amended by No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912,