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ecare in the schedule to Ordinance 25 of 1891.
Owners of piers coming under this Bill, except piers erected for a temporary purpose only, will, as soon as they obtain the concurrence of all necessary parties, receive leases from the Government, in exchange for their present licences, for a term of 50 years, and such leases will be in accordance with the provisions of and the scale of rent in the schedule to this Bill, except that they will contain a clause providing for the reassessment of the rent at the end of 25 years, to be determined by the Governor-in-Council.
Clauses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the Bill are in the main merely re-enactments, with slight alterations and modifications, of the terms recently inserted in the concessions for the erection of a pier, except that Clause 13 provides for the Governor-in-Council considering, upon its merits and moral claim to compensation, any claim for the removal of a pier (see the Governor's Despatch No. 284 of 1899, dated 18th September 1899, and see the Secretary of State's Despatch in reply (No. 239) dated 19th October 1899).
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