CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION . [ 23 or 1889.) 1151
No. 23 or 1889.
An Ordinance to enable the Governor to resume Crown Title.
Lands under lease and to give compensation therefor
and for other cognate purposes.
[ 24th June, 1889.]
HEREAS the dwelling louses on certain portions of land Preamble
under lease from the Crown especially in the City of
Victoria are of insanitary construction as regards conditions of
air and light and it is expedient that the Governor should be
emporered to acquire or resume such lands and buildings
compulsorily with a view to the erection of improved houses or
dwellings thereon and doubts have arisen whether the resump
tion of such lands for the purposes aforesaid and for other pur
poses beneficial to the public of the Colony is within the meaning
and intent of the powers of resumption for a public purpose
contained in the Crown leases of such lands and it is expedient
to remove such doubts and whereas it is expedient that the
duty of determining the value of lands resuned for a public
purpose and of fixing the compensation to be awarded in respect
thereof under Crown leases should be transferred from the
Surveyor General to a Board of Arbitrators to be approved for
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the purpose : *
1. This ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Crown Short title.
Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889 .
2. In this ordinance unless inconsistent with or repugnant Interpreta
to the context, tion
The word Board shall mean any board of arbitrators appointed
from time to time under this ordinance.
The word Land shall mean any Crown land under lease from
the Crown or any part or section thereof.
The word Owner shall mean the person whose name for the
time being is registered in the Land Registry Office of the
Colony in respect of any land sought to be resumed under the
provisions of this ordinance or if such person be absent from
the Colony or cannot be found or is bankrupt or dead his agent
or representative in the Colony or the person entitled for the
time being to have his name registered in the said office in
respect of such land or his agent or representative in the Colony.
3. ( i . ) Whenever the Governor in Council shall decide that Power of
the resumption of any land is expedient in the interest of the resumption .
public it shall be lawful for the Governor to enter into privato
negociations with the owner of any such land or any other