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the sea, and owners of other demised portions of
the Colony near to but not having actual abuttal
on such foreshores and seabed had grouped them-
selves with the before mentioned owners.
(6) Care had been taken in various Ordinances
relating to reclamation and other works affecting
the Crown foreshores and seabed to insert
saving clauses as to the Crown rights, e.g. sec.
10 of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889,
(No.6 of 1889) "Nothing in this Ordinance shall
be deemed to recognise any foreshore rights
whatever against the Crown".
The situation before mentioned was dealt with
as appears in the said Ordinance No.15 of 1901.
Such Ordinance has recently been amended by the
Foreshores and Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
This
3.
The question has been asked whether in making
the substitution, effected by the before mentioned
amending Ordinance, of compensation for the former
power of obstruction in the case of Crown lessees
with special rights of sea access; it was intended
that the power of obstruction in the case of grants
by the Crown of rights of erecting and maintaining
piers or wharves be at the same time taken away
without compensation as in the former case.
question is dealt with in the following paragraphs.
In no case has resort been made to the
procedure laid down in the Foreshores and Seabed Ordinance in respect of the so called Pier Leases nor
can such resort be had, see sec. 5 of Ordinance No.15
of 1901; these have been regarded as grants or
leases of an incorporeal hereditament, viz. the right
of erecting and maintaining a pier on or over Crown
foreshore
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