PIERS.
No. 11 of 1899.
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PIERS AMENDMENT.
[A.D. 1924.
force for such period as may be specified in the said resolution: Provided that no such revised scale of rent shall be made to take effect before the 1st day of January, 1925, and that any such revised scale of rents brought into force after the 31st day of December, 1924, and before the 1st day of January, 1950, shall continue in force until the end of the year 1949.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th day of August, 1924.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils,
9. No boy or mooring shall be kept or placed by the Restriction owner of any pier otherwise than in accordance with and placing
buoy or subject to the provisions of the law relating to merchant mooring shipping.
[ef. No. 10 of 1809.]
use of pier
10. No pier shall be used by any person for the storage Prohibition of of materials of any description, except gear required for for storage. working the pier, and no articles, materials, or things shall, except as aforesaid, remain on any pier beyond the time actually required for their shipment or landing, as the case may be.
warehouse,
11. No warehouse, shed, or building of any kind, other Prohibition of than a shelter against the weather, shall, except with the erection of consent of the Director of Public Works, be erected by any etc,, on pier. person on any pier.
[8. 12, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
13. No vessel shall lie alongside the end of any pier, unless No vessel to the pier is specially constructed for that purpose.
lie along endl of pier.
removal of
14. (1) In the event of any portion of the land over Power to which a pier is erected being required for any purpose which order the Governor in Council decides to be a public purpose, it pier, and shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to cancel the payment of licence for or lease of such pier and to order that such pier removal. shall be either partially or entirely removed by the owner thereof and at his expense.
(2) The Director of Public Works shall alone be entitled to order, in the event of a partial removal of such pier, what portions of it are to be so removed, and any such removal, whether partial or total, shall be effected by the owner within such period as may be ordered by the Director of Public Works in a notice in writing served on the owner.
(3) The cost of such removal or partial removal of such pier shall be defrayed exclusively by the owner thereof, and no compensation will be paid by the Government for, and no action, suit, or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government in respect of, any description of loss or damage, whether direct or indirect, which the owner of such pier may sustain by reason of such removal or partial removal.
(4) The Governor in Council shall, however, consider on its merits, and on such evidence as the Governor in Council may think fit, any moral claim to compensation which may be brought forward by the owner of such pier in respect of
cost of
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