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Certificate of cost and re- covery there. of.

Ordinance

No. 5 of 1920.

(xiv) erection of supports for neighbouring properties, on payment or otherwise by the owners of such neighbouring properties of a fair proportion thereof; and

(xv) such other work as the Director may expressly specify or which may in his opinion manifest itself from time to time as becessary.

5. (1) The cost of clearance offected by the Director auder section 4 hereof shall be assessed as equitably as may be by the Director having regard to the amount of war damage affecting any particular site and shall be certified by him and shall include an audition not exceeding twenty-five per cent thereof in respect of the cost of supervision of the work, the most of obtaining feaders (if any) and issuing notices, and unless already provided for In the tender or otherwise there shall be allowed as ʼn reduction the amount that arises from the sale of materials removed from the site or such sum us appeurs to the Director to be fair compensation for the value of materials remover therefrom for immediate or anbaequent use by the Crown,

(2) The cost of such clearance na so certified shall constitute a first charge on the land which comprises the war damaged site as against the owner or any person into whose hands the same may come and whether or not such person be a bona fide purchaser thereof for valuable consideration without notice.

(3) The certificate of such charge may be registered in the appropriate Land Office against the title of the land affected and the Land Officer shall in any particular case refuse the registration of any conveyance for money or money's worth relating to the property unless in his opinion satisfactory provision is made for the liquidation of such charge.

(4) The owner of any war damaged site and his quccessors in title and nasigns shall be liable to the Crown for the amount specified in such certificate up to the value of his interest in the property but not further or otherwise but together with intereat at the rate of four per centum per soon from the date of such certificate to the date of payment thereof;

Provided that the Governor in Council may in such case or cases us be thinks fit waive the payment of such interest and provided that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent the exercise by the Crown of any other rights for the recovery of such charge in particular the right of re-entry where that arises by deed, lease, agreement or olherwise:

And provided that if a net profit results from the sale or disposal of material removed from a war damaged site after all clearance measures that the Director deem necessary thereon have hoen effected and all charges authorised in respect thereof under thia Ordinance have been deducted then the amount of such net profit shall be notified to the owner if his whereabouts can be ascertained and paid to him on request or if not requested shall be dealt with in accordance with the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1920.

6.

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Where the Director has reason to suppose that by reason Breach of of a covenant or condition enforceable against him an owner has covenants to unfulfilled responsibilities relating to the maintenance or upkeep of a building on a war damaged site and whether the Director has taken any steps further than to declare the site n war damaged site or not, he may serve upon aneb owner a notification in accordance with Form No. 4 in the Sebedule, with such modifien- tious as appear to be necessary, requiring the owner to state within the same period of three weeks what period bo requires to fulfil such responsibilities.

auction.

T. (1) In the event of re-entry for breach of an owner's Power to covenants in respect of non-payment of a charge certified under sell by section 5, or re-entry for breach of an awoer's covenant relating to maintenance or repair of a building on a war damaged site, or if u site re-entered upon for other reasons is subsequently declared by the Director to be a war damaged site, the Director shall cause a new lease of such land to be sold by public auction upon such terns as the Governor may approve.

(2) The price or premium realised from such auction shall be retained towards satisfaction of any charge and interest thereon and proper costs and charges in connection therewith and in connection with the auction and the balance remaining thereafter shall without prejudice to any lawful claim thereto be paid to the owner up to the extent of his interest and in the event of the owner not being traced or not making any claim shall be dealt with in accordance with the Trelaimel Balances Ordinance, 1929.

Ordinance No. of

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1) no rgag." sale shall take place without the consent of the owner except after one month's notice of such intention has been published under the hand of the Colonial Secretary in the Gazette and not even then if a petition for relief has been presented to the Supreme Court or to the Governor in Council unless and until a decision permitting anch sale has been arrived at upon such petition.

8. During the period for which this Ordinance remains in Amendment force, section 8 of the Crown Rights (Ite-entry) Ordinance, 1870, of Ordinance

No. 4 DE shall be reud as though the following words were added at the

1870. and thereof÷-

"but in the case of site which has been declared to be a war damaged site by the Director of Public Worka umler section 3 of the War Damaged Sites Ordinance, 1949, the Governor in Council shall in his discretion have power-

(i) in the case of an unsatisfied charge for the cost of site clearance to cause a sale by public auction of a new lease of the land to take place instead of giving relief and causO to be refunded to the owner the amount so realised less the amount of the charge and all proper charges and expenses; And

(i) in the case of some other breach of covenant to receive representations by the owner with regard to his inteution or capacity to carry out the terms under which he

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