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Survey. Extension Plan Extension Behedule.
"Extension Plan" means the plan prepared in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of this Ordinance; "Extension Schedule" means the schedule prepared in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of this Ordinance and any amendment to such schedule;
**former owner" means the person registered or entitled to be registered in respect of any land included in the Extension Schedule, or if such person is absent from the Colony, or cannot be found, or is bankrupt or dead, his agent or representative in the Colony;
"Land Officer' means the Land Officer, Victoria, in respect of any lot designated a Kowloon loland Lot or a New Kowloon Inland Lot, and the Assistant Land Officer, Now Territories, in respect of any lot designated a Survey District 1 Lot or a Survey District 2 Lot,,
"occupation period" means the period between the 25th December, 1941, and the 1st September, 1945;
"occupying power" means the power exercising during the occupation period the functions of government in the Colony or any part thereof;
"Resumption Officer' means the Valuation and Resumption Officer of the Government of Hong Kong.
3. (1) The Resumption Officer shall forthwith from such records as are available and from survey, inspection and enquiry determine with all possible accuracy, the location. and dimension of the Airfield Extension.
(2) The Resumption Officer shall with all possible accuracy delineate the area of the Airfield Extension on a plan which will be the Extension Plan for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(3) The Resumption Officer shall prepare in relation to the area delineated in the Extension Plan the Extension Schedule which shall specify as accurately as possible all lots and parcels of land included in the Airfield Extension by reference to lot number, location and area, and shal! specify therein the graded value and amount of compensation payable in respect of each lot or parcel computed in accordance with section 6 of this Ordinance.
(4) The Extension Plan and the Extension Schedule shall be presented for approval to the Governor in Council so soon as may be possible after the passing of this Ordinance
and on such approval a copy of each endorsed with a certificate thereof by the Clerk of Councils shall be lodged at the Land Office, Victoris, and at the office of the Assistant Land Officer, New Territories, and be available for inspection at such offices during the usual office hours ou payment of a fee of one dollar. A notice of such approval and of the date of such deposit and availability for inspection shall be published in the Gazette upon the deposit being made.
4. (1) Subsequent to the coming into force of this Raression Ordinance the Resumption Officer shall lodge at the Land of owner-
ship to Office, Victoria, and at the office of the Assistant Land Officer, Crown. New Territories, memorials of the Extension Schedule approved and lodged in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of this Ordinance and of any amendment to the Extension Schedule which may from time to time be made in accordancE with the provisions of section 7 of this Ordinance.
(2) Any land comprised in any such memorial shall upon the lodgment thereof be deemed to have reverted to the Crown with effect from the 1st September, 1945, and from such date all the rights of the former owner his assigns or representatives or of any other person in or over the land or any part thereof shall be deemed absolutely to have ceased save and except-
(a) any right or claim against the occupying
power; and
(b) any right or claim to compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
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5. The following principles shall govern the assess- Compensa. ment of compensation for the purpose of this Ordinance :-
(1) Compensation shall be paid in respect of land only and shall be taken to he the amount which the land if sold in the open market on 1st September, 1945, night have been expected to realise.
(ii) The method of assessment shall be by assign ment of one or other of the graded values specified in the First First Schedule hereto,
(iii) The onus shall primarily be on any claimant to establish that some other graded value be assigned than that specified in the Extension Schedule or to establish that any other amendment or addition should be made thereto.
(iv) No allowance shall be made on account of the resumption being compulsory.
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