CO129-537-6 Foreshores and Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance 1932 18-8-1932 - 17-1-1933 — Page 11

HONGKONG

(1924 REVISION)

No. 11 of 1899.

An Ordinance to make provision with respect to piers.

[Originally

[1st January, 1900.]

No. 37 of 1900.

Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]

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Short title.

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Piers Ordinance, 1899.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) "Crown foreshore" includes Crown land covered with water below ordinary low water mark.

(b) "Pier" includes every pier and wharf of whatever description, except a pier or wharf belonging to the Govern- ment or to the naval or military authorities.

Interpreta- tion.

for piers.

3.-(1) Rent in accordance with the scale specified in the Scale of rents Schedule shall (except in cases where rent on a higher scale chargeable is now payable to the Government by agreement) be payable to the Treasury by the owner of any pier, whether already schedule. erected or hereafter to be erected or re-erected over Crown foreshore, notwithstanding any agreement or understanding between the Government and the owner of such pier or any of his predecessors in title, to the effect that no rent or rent on a lower scale should be payable in respect of such pier.

(2) Such rent shall be payable in advance by equal monthly instalments, and, in the case of a new pier, shall commence to be payable from the date of the granting of the licence or lease therefor: Provided, nevertheless, that no rent shall be chargeable in respect of any pier which is removed before the expiration of one month from the date of the granting of the licence or lease for its erection, and that rent for such a pier, if paid, shall be refunded.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.