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(4) The Director of Public Works or any licensed person so authorised as aforesaid may at any time for the purpose of examining, repairing, altering or removing any telegraph line or post erected or maintained by him, enter on the property under, over, along, across, in or upon which the line or post has been placed.
(5) The Director of Public Works may for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by this section alter, or may authorise a licensed person to alter, the position of any pipe or wire, not being a main, for the supply of gas or electricity Provided that when it is desired to alter the position of any such pipe or wire reasonable notice of the intention to do so shall be given by the Director of Public Works or by the licensed person, whichever is concerned, to the person under whose control such pipe or wire is.
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11.-(1) If the exercise of the powers mentioned in Exercise section 10, in respect of property referred to in sub-section conferred (4) thereof, is resisted or obstructed, a magistrate may, on by section a summons taken out in that behalf, order that the Director of Public Works or the licensed person concerned shall be permitted to exercise them.
(2) If after the making of an order under sub-section (1) any person resists the exercise of those powers, or having control over the property does not give all facilities for their being exercised, he shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this Ordinance.
(3) If any dispute arises as to the sufficiency of the com- pensation to be paid under sub-section (3) of section 10, it shall, on application by way of summons for that purpose by either of the disputing parties to a magistrate, be determined by him.
(4) If any dispute arises as to the persons entitled to receive compensation or as to the proportions in which the persons interested are entitled to share in it, the Director of Public Works or the licensed person concerned may pay into the magistrate's court such amount as he deems sufficient, or, where all the disputing parties have in writing admitted the amount tendered to be sufficient or the amount has been determined under sub-section (3), that amount.
(5) The magistrate, after giving notice to the parties and hearing such of them as desire to be heard, shall determine the persons entitled to receive the compensation or, as the case may be, the proportions in which the persons interested are entitled to share in it.
(6) Every determination of a dispute by a magistrate under sub-sections (3), (4) or (5) shall be final.
(7) Nothing in sub-section (6) shall affect the right of any person to sue for and recover the whole or any part of any compensation paid by the Director of Public Works or by a licensed person from the person who has received the
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12. (1) When under the foregoing provisions of this Removal or Ordinance a telegraph line or post has been placed by the telegraph Director of Public Works or by a person licensed as aforesaid line or under, over, along, across, in or upon any property, and any person entitled to do so desires to deal with that property in
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