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L.S.

HONG KONG.

20

No. 33 of 1929.

I assent.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

20th December, 1929.

An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands

Resumption Ordinance, 1900.

[20th December, 1929.]

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 Crown. Lands Short title. Resumption Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 16 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordi- Repeal of nance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is Ordinance substituted therefor :---

No. 10 of 1900,

s. 16, and

16.—(1) All sums of money awarded as substitution compensation (together with interest thereon of new as hereinafter mentioned), and all costs and section. remuneration awarded against the Crown, shall be paid out of the general revenue.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, after the making of any award whether already made or hereafter to be made under this Ordinance, to cause to be inserted in the Gazette a notification that an award has been made, and such notification shall appoint a government officer to pay the com- pensation awarded, and a place at which, and a time within which, such compensation shall be paid.

(3) Any sum of money awarded as com‐ pensation shall bear interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the date of the resumption of the land until the expiration of the time appointed as aforesaid. Except as bereinbefore mentioned, no interest shall be payable on any sum awarded as compensation. No interest shall be payable on any costs or remuneration.

(4) If no claim be made for the compensa- tion money at the place, and within the time, appointed, the officer appointed as aforesaid shall cause such money to be paid into the Treasury.