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Falso statement.

Issue of Tesettle ment card.

which may be necessary to establish the qualification of such person for occupation of a dwelling in a cottage resettlement area or in a resettlement estate.

(2) The competent authority, or such authorized officer, may write down such questions and the replies to such questions or any of them and may require such person to make such declara- tion as he may deem necessary as to the truth of such replies.

(3) The competent authority or an authorized officer may complete in respect of such person a screening form in such form as shall be prescribed by regulations made under section $1, with such additions as he shall consider necessary.

(4) The competent authority, or such authorized officer, may require such person to produce to him such evidence as he thinks fil in support of the statements and answers made by him.

21. Any person who makes any statement to a competent authority or to an authorized officer in reply to any question pur to him in accordance with the provisions of section 20, or makes a declaration to a competent authority or to an authorized officer, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one

vear.

22. (1) If a competent authority or an authorized officer is satisfied that a person is eligible for accommodation in a coltage resettlement area or in a resettlement estate, he may issue to him a resettlement card in accordance with such form as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 51.

(z) Any person who-

(a) defaces, alters or destroys any resettlement card; or

(b) has in his possession any resettlement card which has

been defaced or altered; or

(c) not being an officer authorized by the competent authority, has in his possession without lawful authority or excuse any resettlement card other than a card on which his name appears,

shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.

PART IV.

Resettlement estates.

23. (1) The Governor may appoint any person by name or Appoint- office to be a competent authority for the purpose of this Part of ment of

competent this Ordinance.

authority.

(2) Such appointment may be made in respect of the whole or any part of the Colony, but shall be deemed to extend to the whole of the Colony unless otherwise expressed.

24. (1) The Governor may set aside as a resettlement estate Setting any area of Crown land for the resettlement of such persons as

azide reset- tlament by reason of their association with the Colony or otherwise appear estates. to him to merit assistance.

(2) A notification of any such setting aside shall be given in the Gazette by reference to a map or plan of the land set aside signed by the Director of Public Works and deposited in the Land Office or, in the case of any such area in the New Territories, in the office of the District Commissioner, New Territories.

(3) The areas listed in the First Schedule shall be deemed First to have been set aside by the Governor as resettlement estates, Scherlube. maps of which, dated the 29th day of April, 1958, have been deposited in the Land Office or in the office of the District Commissioner, New Territories, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2).

25. A competent authority may erect on any resettlement Erection of estate any building or structure which he may deem necessary or

buildings by competent expedient for the purpose for which such area was set aside. authority.

buildings.

26. (1) Any building which, at the date of the coming into Existing operation of this Ordinance, is in an area designated in the First

First Schedule shall be deemed to have been erected by a competent Schedule. authority in accordance with the provisions of section 25, and this Part of this Ordinance shall apply to such building as if it had heen erected by a competent authority in accordance with that section.

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