(o) may do, or authorize persons using the land as aforesaid to do, in relation to the land, anything which any person having an interest in the land would be entitled to do by virtue of that interest; and
(b) may by order provide for prohibiting or res- tricting the exercise of rights of way over the land, and of other rights relating thereto which are enjoyed by any person, whether by virtue of an interest in land or otherwise.
(5) The owner or occupier of any land shall, if requested by or on behalf of a competent authority so to do, furnish to such authority or person as may he specified in the request such information in his possession relating to the land (being informa- tion which may reasonably be demanded of him in connection with the execution of this regulation) as may be so specified.
(6) A competent authority may, to such extent and subject to such restriction as it thinks proper, delegate all or any of its functions under this regulation to any specified person or class of person.
Requisition 67. (1) In this regulation the term "chattel" includes any of properly other than substance, vehicle or animal and any launch, lighter, boat or other small craft, and any ship, vessel or aircraft but does not include currency, gold securities or negotiable instruments.
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(3) A competent authority may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, requisition any chattel, and may give such directions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in connection with the requisition. Any person contravening any such direction shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
(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 chatte! for such purposes and in such manner as he thinks expedient in the public interest. and may hold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the chattel as if he were the owner thereof and as if the chattel were free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation, and, in a cast where the chattel requisitioned is a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery, muy acquire it by serving on the owner thereof a notice stating that he 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--
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(a) the vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agicultural machinery shall vest in the Government of Hong Kong free 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 chatted requisitioned is a chattel other than a vehicle, vessel, excavator, crane or agricultural machinery such chattel shall as soon as possession thereof is taken in pursuance of this regulation, vest in the Government of Hong Kong free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar obligation.
(5) Where the competent authority has issued his requisition in respect of any chattel, such clattel 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 he shall appoint for the purpose forthwith or (if such is the casc) within such period as may be mentioned in the requisition. On any refusal or neglect to furnish such property in manner afone- said, then the competent authority or others authorized by him in thunt 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 accord- ing to the requisition provided that the property specified in the requisition shall not he deemed to have been furnished except în so far as possession is taken by or by the direction of the compelent 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 unexpired at the date aforesaid, if a claim for such refund is made to him in writing by such person not later than three months after The date when such vehicle was acquired as aforesaid.
68. (1) Any authorized officer and any person acting under Power to the special authority of a competent authority may, in the public do work an interest, do any work on any land or place anything in or over any land.
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