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1114
Compensation to bear interest.
Payment of
in case of
+
No. 10 of 1900.
CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION,
tions and at such price, whether by way of rent, premium, or other- wise, and either by public anction or private contract, as the Governor may determine.
16. All sums of money awarded and all costs against the Crown, if any, shall, as soon as practicable after the award is published, be paid out of the public revenues, and all gums awarded, exclusive of costs, shall bear interest at the rate of 8 dollars per cent. from the date of the resumption of the land until payment.
17. Where the owner of any land which has been resumed is compensation absent from the Colony or cannot be found, or within 6 months absent owner. from the date when the amount of compensation shall have been determined makes no claim to the same, or is in the opinion of the Governor unable to give an effectual discharge for the same, the Governor may direct payment of the compensation to be made to such other person on behalf of the owner as he shall think proper subject to any conditions or not, and the receipt of such person shall be a valid and effectual discharge for the same in the same manner as if payment had been made to the owner.
Effect ** evidence of notice of
18. In any notice to resume any land, it shall be sufficient to state that the resumption of such land is required for & public purpose, resumption, without stating the particular purpose for which the land is requir ed; and a notice containing such statement shall be conclusive evi- dence that the resumption is for a public purpose.
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Arrangement with owner of buildings or dwellings to reconstruct
them.
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19. Whenever the buildings or dwellings on any land are of insanitary construction as regards conditions of light and air, the Governor may, notwithstanding any of the powers of resumption herein contained or prior to the exercise of any such powers, permit the owner of such buildings or dwellings to reconstruct or rebuild the same or any part thereof, on such terms and conditions and subject to such security being given for the proper carrying out of such reconstruction or rebuilding as the Governor may think fit.
Board to
20. Any Board of Arbitrators may make rules for the conduct of regulate proceedings. proceedings before it.
21. This Ordinance shall not be deemed to prevent the exercise by His Majesty of any power of resumption contained in any Crown
Saving of power of resumption under Crown lease.
lease.
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+ As amended by No. 28 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
As amended by No. 18 of 1910, No. 28 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
As amended by No. 28 of 1911.
As amended by No. 28 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
DRAFT.
Ang Kong. 439 bag.
Mr.
Mr.
MINUTE.
Paterom 1.9.
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Mr. Grindle.
Sir H. Lambert.
Sir H. Read.
Sir G. Fiddes.
Col. Amery.
Lord Milner.
710 Year. C. 57
11/9
DR4/20085 / Hong Kong.
Juk.
よ
12 Apr.
656
19.0.
I have ve. to ock the
Receipt of your despatch No. 208 of
под
the 25th June with regard to the
comperention for compulsory
public
purchase of land for fustic Випрое
and in that convection
the Acquisition
to user to §2 (1)yqandio kv.
of Loud (Rcceerment of Componentions)
Get co Act 1919 (9 and to les. 5. CL.57) a
Copy of which is enclosed,
Jemm
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