(3) Where any chattel is requisitioned, under this regulation, a competent authority may use or deal with or authorize the use or dealing with the chattel for such purposes and in such manner as such authority thinks expedient in the public interest and may hold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the chanel as if such authority were the owner thereof and as if the chattel were free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation, and, in a case where the chattel requisitioned is a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery, may acquire it by serving on the owner thereof a notice stating that such authority has acquired it in pursuance of this regulation. When a notice of acquisition has been served, then, at the beginning of the day on which the notice is served-
(a) the vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricul Aural machinery shall vest in the Government of Hong Kong fre from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation; and
(b) the period of the requisition thereof shall end.
(4) In any case in which the chattel requisitioned is a chattel other than a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricul tural machinery such chattel shall, as soon as possession thereof is taken in pursuance of this regulation, vest in the Governmen of Hong Kong free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation.
(5) Where the competent authority has issued such authority's requisition in respect of any chattel, such chattel shall be furnished by the owner and the person having the possession, custody or control thereof to the competent authority or to such persons as such authority shall appoint for the purpose forthwith or (if such is the case) within such period as may be mentioned in the requisition. On any refusal or neglect 100 furnish such property in manner aforesaid, then the competent authority or others authorized by such authority in that behalf may seize (and if need be may enter premises by force for the purpose) the property requisitioned and may use the same in like manner as if it had been furnished in pursuance of the requisition. Payment for the same shall nevertheless be made in like manner as if the property had been duly furnished according to the requisition provided that the property specified in the requisition shall not be deemed to have been furnished except in so far as possession is taken by or by the direction of the competent authority.
(6) Where the Accountant General is satisfied that any vehicle in respect of which a licence to keep has been granted has, in exercise of the powers conferred by this regulation, been acquired before the expiration of the period of the validity of such licence, the Accountant General may authorize the refund to the person who at the date of such acquisition was the owner of the vehicle of a proportionate part of the fee paid for such licence in respect of such part of the period of its validity as remained Inexpired at the date aforesaid, if a claim for such refund is made him in writing by such person not later than three months after the date when such vehicle was acquired as aforesaid.
5. (1) Any authorized officer and any person acting under Power to the special authority of a competent authority may, in the public do work on land. Interest, do any work on any land or place anything in or over any land.
(2) A competent authority, if it appears to such authority Lo be necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, may by order provide for prohibiting or restricting the doing on any particular land of any such work as may be specified in the order.
(3) No person, other than an authorized officer, or any person acting under the special authority of a competent authority, shall, except with permission granted by or on behalf of a com- petent authority remove, alter or tamper with any work done or relained, or anything placed or retained in, on or over, any land in pursuance of this regulation.
(4) Any person who contravenes any provision of this regulation, or any order or direction thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, the doing or retaining of work shall, in relation to any land, be deemed to include the demolition, pulling down, destruction or rendering seless of anything placed in, on or over the land and the removal from the land of anything so placed, demolished or mailed down.
B. (1) Without prejudice to any other of these regulations, the Governor may by order authorize, subject to any restrictions or conditions imposed by the order, the use of any land specified therein for naval, military, air force or police force purposes, as the case may be, during such period as may be specified in
Use of land is Majesty's forces and police.