Interpreta-
tion.
Schedule.
Reversion
to Crown
of land
specified
in Schedule.
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2. In this Ordinance, save where the context otherwise requires-
"Class A claimant" means a person who is, under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 5. entitled to recover compensation;
"Class B claimant" means a person who is, under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 5, eligible to recover compensation; "Compensation Board" means the Chai Wan Land Compensation
Board established by subsection (1) of section 15;
"Director" means the Director of Public Works;
"land" includes all buildings thereon!
"Land Tribunal" means the Chai Wan Land Tribunal established by
subsection (2) of section 15;
"reversion land" means the pieces or parcels of land specified in the
Schedule.
PART II.
Reversion of certain land to Crown and making and determination of claims for compensation consequent thereon.
3.
Without prejudice to any right which may at the date on which, by virtue of the provisions of this section, the same are deemed to have reverted to the Crown have been vested in the Crown, or to the fact that, at the said date, the same or any part thereof may already have reverted to the Crown by operation of law or otherwise, all those pieces or parcels of land specified in the Schedule shall be deemed to have reverted to the Crown-
(a) in the case of the pieces or parcels of land specified in Part I
of the Schedule, on the 6th day of June, 1958;
(b) in the case of the pieces or parcels of land specified in Part II
thereof, on the 6th day of April, 1959; and
(c) in the case of the pieces or parcels of land specified în Part [1]
thereof, on the 13th day of June, 1959.
and, on the said dates, all the rights of the owners, their assigns of representatives, and of any other persons, in or over the said pieces or parcels of land shall be deemed to have ceased absolutely.
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4. No action or suit, other than a claim to recover compensation Borring of
claims other made under and in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. than claims shall lie against the Crown or any other person in respect of any loss or for com
pensation. damage suffered by any person in consequence of the reversion to the Crown of any of the reversion land.
5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, any person Persons who
are or may who
be entitled to recover (4) had a lawful right or interest in or over any of the reversion compensa-
tion. land which has been extinguished in consequence of the rever- sion of the same to the Crown under the provisions of section 3: or
(b) has, in consequence of the reversion to the Crown as aforesaid
of any of the reversion land, suffered any loss or damage-
() by being disturbed in the enjoyment of any lawful right or interest in or over such land; or
(ii) by reason of the removal from such land of his business, being a lawful business which was permitted to be carried on thereon by the Crown lease under which such land was held:
or
(iii) by reason of the severance of such land, being land to which he was lawfully entitled, from other land to which he was also lawfully entitled.
shall be entitled to recover compensation as a Class A claimant,
(2) Any person who-
(a)
had any right or interest in or over any of the reversion land, being a right or interest which, however defeasible or invalid in law, was acquired by him, or was acquired by him in accordance with the law from some other person who had acquired the same or who had acquired a greater right or interest in or over such land. in good faith and in reliance upon and in accordance with any custom as to the manner of assigning or otherwise dealing in or with land which the Land Tribunal may find to prevail or to have prevailed, notwith- standing that such custom is pr was contrary to law, which has been extinguished in consequence of the reversion of such land to the Crown under the provisions of section 3; or
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