(3) The Board shall, after the close of the survey and examination in the last sub-section mentioned or of such further enquiry (if any), forthwith prepare and publish a list of the lots, portions, sections and sub-sections of the lots resumed under this Ordinance and of the names of the registered owners thereof and of the houses standing upon the said lots, portions, sections and sub-sections and of the names of the registered owners and householders thereof, and such list shall specify in detail against each house the various particulars in the last sub-section mentioned so far as the same have been or are capable of being ascertained and such list signed by the Chairman of the Board shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated and set forth,
(4) Such list shall be forwarded to the Governor and shall be forthwith published in the Gazette, in one English and in one Chinese newspaper in Hongkong and in such newspaper in London as the Board shall direct and for such period or periods as the Board may think fit.
(5) Until the publication of the said list the Chairman of the Board may, upon the application of any owner mentioned in the first schedule hereto, authorise in writing such owner or his agents and servants to enter and inspect any of the houses or lands resumed under this Ordinance from such owner.
7. Until the completion of the survey and examination or of the further enquiry, if any, mentioned in section 6 of this Ordinance, no houses upon the lands resumed under this Ordinance, shall be altered, pulled down or destroyed.
Upon the completion of such survey and examination or inquiry the houses and lands resumed may be dealt with in such manner as the Governor may direct.
8. Every person interested in or claiming an interest in any land resumed under this Ordinance shall, within four months from the date of the publication of the lists of lands and houses resumed under this Ordinance, send in a written claim to the clerk or secretary of the Board stating the precise nature of his interest in the land resumed, his title thereto and the amount of compensation which he seeks to recover, and every such claim shall be separately considered and adjudicated upon unless the parties to two or more claims shall otherwise agree and shall send to the clerk or secretary to the Board a written consent in that behalf or unless the Board shall be of opinion that any two or more claims cannot be separately considered and adjudicated upon.
9. No claim for compensation shall be sent in or received or entertained by the Board after the expiration of the said period of four months, but the Board shall have power at any time to allow any claim sent in within the period aforesaid to be amended in such manner as justice may require.
10. For the purposes of arbitration the Board shall have the following powers -
(1) Subject to the proviso in section 5 of this Ordinance, to determine the compensation to be paid to the owner of any land and to every other person having an interest in any land or house resumed under this Ordinance or in respect of the extinction of any right or easement caused by such resumption regard being had not only to the value of the land taken and of any houses thereon but also to any damage or injury resulting to the owner of the land resumed by reason of the severance of such land from other land of such owner contiguous thereto, and to award compensation in respect of such resumption or extinction to all persons claiming compensation to whom the Board may find compensation to be due.
(2) To award costs in their discretion either for or against the Crown, or for or against any parties claiming compensation, such costs in case of difference to be settled by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. Provided always that if the Governor shall have offered in writing, prior to any claim being sent in to the Board, to pay to any person interested an amount of compensation equal to or greater than the amount (if any) awarded to such person by the Board, no costs of the arbitration in respect thereof shall in any event be awarded against the Crown.
No houses to be pulled down pending survey, &c.
Claims for compensation.
No claim to be received after four months.
Powers of the Board.
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