CROWN LAND PRESERVATION.
No. 6 of 1917. 2467
5. For the purposes of any such inquiry, the said court shall have all the powers and privileges which under the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, are or may be conferred on commissioners appointed thereunder.
No. 13 of 1886.
made to
6. On the completion of the inquiry, the court shall report to the Governor as to whether in their opinion the damage or destruction was caused by the inhabitants of any village or area.
Council to
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, upon consideration of such report, to order that a fine shall be imposed on the said village or on such area as he shall prescribe.
and method
8.-(1) Every such fine shall be apportioned by the Treasurer among all the owners of land in the said village or area prescribed, in the manner specified in sub-section (2), according to the amount of Crown rent or village rent payable by such owners respectively.
(2) In the New Territories the Treasurer shall apportion the fine among all the persons whose names appear on the Crown rent roll for the said village or area, and elsewhere in the Colony among all the persons whose names appear either on the Crown rent roll or on the village rent roll for the said village or area.
(3) The amounts so apportioned shall in each case be a first charge on the land in respect of which the Crown rent or village rent upon which the apportionment was based is payable.
(4) The amounts so apportioned shall be recoverable from the respective owners whose names appear on the Crown rent roll or village rent roll respectively in the same manner in all respects as Crown rent is recoverable.
(5) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his discretion to remit the payment of any amount so apportioned in the case of any owner of land in the said village or area who was not resident in the said village or area at the time when the damage or destruction occurred, or who was not a party to such damage or destruction.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,
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