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objection to a proposed undertaking or any claim of private right in respect thereof has been submitted to the Director of Public Works in accordance with such notifica- tion, the Governor in Council shall consider the proposed undertaking together with every objection and every claim so submitted and shall afford every person who has so submitted an objection or claim an opportunity of being heard in person or by counsel or solicitor.":

(b) by the deletion, in subsection (2), of “all objections and

claims" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"every objection and every claim”:

(e) by the insertion, after subsection (2), of the following new

subsection-

*(2A) Where before the expiration of the period specified in the notification published under section 2 no objection to a proposed undertaking and no claim of private right in respect thereof has been submitted to the Director of Public Works in accordance with such notifica- tion, the Governor shall consider the proposed under- taking and may authorize such undertaking with or with- out modification thereof."; and

(d) by the deletion, in subsection (3), of "A" and the substitution

therefor of the following-

"Where the Governor în Council has authorized an under- taking with or without modification under subsection (2) or where the Governor has authorized an undertaking with or without modification under subsection (2A), a”.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 24th day of February, 1966, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

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(Secretariat BL1/3151/53)

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

HONG KONG

No. 6 OF 1966,

I assent.

French.

24th February, 1966,

An Ordinance further to amend the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance.

[25th February, 1966.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreshores and Sea Bed Short title. (Amendment) Ordinance 1966.

2. Section 3 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance (herein. Repeal and after referred to as the principal Ordinance) is repealed and replaced replacement by the following-

"Power to

Grant Crown leases of foreshors

and sea bed.

3. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor may grant and agree to grant such Crown leases for any term not exceeding ninety-nine years (renewable on the usual terms), or for such longer term as the Secretary of State may authorize, of the foreshore and sea bed within the limits of the waters of the Colony, and of Crown land covered with water in any tidal river or channel connected with such waters, as may be declared by the Governor in

of tection 3. (Cap. 127).