CO129-537-6 Foreshores and Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance 1932 18-8-1932 - 17-1-1933 — Page 61

Enclosure No. 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Ac

Hong Kong

18th August, 193 2.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No

26

of 193 2.

70

1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance.

intituled an

Crdinence to amend the foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance,1901,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not

contrary to the Governor's instructions.

2. The title of the principal Ordinance (llo.15 of 1901)

is "An Ordinance to validate Crown leases of foreshore and

submerged lends for reclamation, and to facilitate the

making of such leases".

3. The Ordinance however contained, in sections 3 and

5, provisoes requiring the consent of lot holders which

tended to frustrate that object; especially as the

Ordinance contained no provision for compensation,

4. There are many Ordinances, of which the Crown lands

Resumption Ordinance, 1900, and the Harbour of Refuge

Ordinance, 1909, are examples, where, subject to provisions

relating to the payment of compensation in proper cases,

the interests of private let holders are extingusihed or

aubordinated to the interests of the public.

5.

This amending Ordinace therefore repeals the

provises referred to above and rakes provision for