Land
Tribunal to take ng dccount of
certain other proceedings.
Admissibility
in criminal proceedings of evidence given before Land Tribunal.
Rules for assessment of com- pensation.
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22. Where, on or after the day on which this Ordinance receive its first reading in the Legislative Council, any proceedings in which the question for the determination of the court is a question as to the title of any person to any of the reversion land are instituted in any court, the Land Tribunal shall not, in making any determination of order, take any account of the fact that such proceedings have be instituted or are being heard nor of any judgment, order or finding which may have been made or given by the court in any such proceedings.
PART IV.
Supplementary and miscellaneous.
23. Any evidence given by any person in and for the purposes of any inquiry by the Land Tribunal shall be admissible in evidence in any criminal proceedings which may be instituted against such persón in respect of or arising out of any transaction in relation to, or any dealing in or with, any of the reversion land.
24. In assessing compensation, the Director and, in the case of any dispute, the Compensation Board, shall act in accordance with th following rules-
(1) The value of any land shall, subject as hereinafter provided. be taken to be the amount which the land. if sold in the open market, might be expected to realize,
(2) No allowance shall be made on account of the fact that the
reversion is compulsory.
(3) No compensation shall be given in respect of any use of the land which is not in accordance with the terms of the Crow lease under which the land is held.
(4) No compensation shall be given in respect of any expectancy or probability of the grant or renewal or continuance, by the Crown or any other person, of any licence, permission, least or permit whatsoever :
Provided that this rule shall not apply to any case in which the grant or renewal or continuance of any licence. permission, lease or permit could have been enforced as of right if the land had oot, under the provisions of section 3. reverted to the Crown.
(5) Where the Compensation Board is satisfied by evidence that- (a) the rental of any buildings or premises in respect of which compensation is claimed was enhanced by reason of the same being used as a brothel, or as a gaming house, or for any illegal purpose;
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(b) such buildings or premises were, at the date on which the pieces or parcels of land on which they were erected reverted to the Crown under the provisions of section 3. in such a condition as to be a nuisance within the meaning of any Ordinance relating to buildings or to public health, or were not in reasonably good repair; or (c) such buildings or premises were at such date unfit, and not reasonably capable of being made fil, for human habitation,
the compensation shall—
(0) in the first case, so far as the same is based on rental, be based on the rental which would have been obtainable if the buildings or premises had not been occupied as a brothel, or as a gaming house, or for any illegal purpose: (ii) in the second case, be the amount estimated as the value of the buildings or premises if the nuisance had been abated or if they had been put into reasonably good repair, after deducting the estimated expense of abating the nuisance or putting them into such repair, as the case may be; and
(i) in the third case, be the value of the land and of the
materials of the buildings thereon.
(6) The Compensation Board may take into consideration the nature and existing condition of the property, und the probable duration of the buildings in their existing state, and the state of repair thereof.
notices.
25. Wherever in this Ordinance provision is made for the service Service of upon any person of any notice, it shall be sufficient service if a copy of such notice is---
(a) delivered to the person upon whom it is to be served; or
(6) sent by registered post to the last known place of residence
or business of such person; or
(c) published in the Gazette.
26. The Governor may entertain any moral claim in respect of Morst claims any loss or damage suffered by any person in consequence of the for com-
pensation, reversion to the Crown under the provisions of section 3 of any of the
CLE. reversion land. and may, on any such claim, order the payment out of the general revenue to any such person, by way of ex gratia compensation, of such amount as be thinks fit, but, save as aforesaid and save under the provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 10, no compensation shall be recoverable in respect of any of Such land by any person other than a person in respect of whom the