CO129-537-6 Foreshores and Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance 1932 18-8-1932 - 17-1-1933 — Page 21

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Amends Ordinance No. 10 of

1900, s. 10.

Compensation Board.

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6.-(1) After the reversion to the Crown as aforesaid a Board of three members shall be appointed to determine the amount of compensation to be paid in respect of such resumption.

(2) The chairman of the Board shall be a magistrate or justice of the peace nomi- nated by the Governor (unless a request in writing that the chairman shall be a judge be addressed by or on behalf of any party to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and filed with him; in which case he shall be such judge as the judges may mutually arrange) and the two other mem- bers shall consist of one member nominated by the Governor and the other by the for- mer owner of the land resumed or other person claiming compensation, or if he has failed before or within one week after the date of expiration of the notice of intended resumption to nominate in writing a mem- ber, then it shall be lawful for the chair- man to nominate some other person on behalf of such owner or claimant.

(3) The members nominated by the Governor and such owner or claimant or either of them may be, but the person nominated by the chairman on behalf of such owner or claimant shall not be, a member of the Colonial Civil Service,

(4) The constitution of the Board shall be notified in the Gazette and within four- teen days from such notification it shall commence its sittings at such time and place as the chairman may, by notification in the Gazette appoint.

(5) The Governor may appoint some person to act as clerk to the Board, and determine his remuneration.

(6) The remuneration of any member of a Board shall be at a rate according to the amount of work, the time occupied and the magnitude of the interests involved and shall be determined in each case by the chairman at the conclusion of the arbitra- tion: Provided that nothing herein shall authorise the payment of remuneration to a public servant who is not permitted to receive remuneration as a member of the Board.

3. Section 10 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordi- nance, 1900, is amended,--

(a) by the deletion of the words “ claiming com- pensation" in the tenth line of paragraph (1) thereof; and

(b) by the insertion of the words

or any persons whom the Board may

find entitled to compensation,"

after the word "compensation," in the fourth line of paragraph (2) thereof.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this

11th day of December, 1930.

N. L. SMITH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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