CO129-542-3 Foreshore and Sea-bed Works Bill- correspondence 9-1-1933 - 16-8-1933 — Page 54

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C.S.O. 4305/30. C.S.O. 3396,30.

Short title.

Works authorised.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to authorise and validate the construction and maintenance of piers, recla- mations and other public works in connec- tion with the foreshore and sea bed or Crown land covered with water.

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 Foreshore and Sea Bed Works Ordinance, 1933.

2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to construct and maintain from the general revenue (whether directly, or indirectly, and whether from the proceeds of any lan or from surplus balances or otherwise) any piers, reclama- tions and other public works over, in, upon or connected with any part of the foreshore and sea bed of the Colony, or any Crown land covered with water in any tidal river or channel connected with the waters of the Colony which may be or which may have been approved by the Governor in Council.

(2) In particular it shall be lawful for the Governor to construct and maintain from the general revenue the follow- ing works:-

(a) Works for the improvement or tending to the improvement of the harbours and ports of the Colony.

(b) Works facilitating the navigation and safety of

vessels using the waters of the Colony.

(r) Works providing for or facilitating the movement,

berthing, loading and discharge of vessels.

(d) Works providing means or facilities for the storage and examination and clearance of cargo, for customs purposes or for any control of impor- tation and exportation authorized by law. (e) Breakwaters and works to provide shelter from

storms for vessels in the waters of the Colony.

(f) Works facilitating communication by water. (g) Works providing places of landing and embarka-

tion of passengers.

(4) Works facilitating the movement of the water-

borne trade of the Colony.

(i) Any pipe line for the conveyance of water across

the harbour.

() All accessory works which may be necessary or desirable for or ou account of the construction of the said works and the adaptation of the adjoin- ing areas.

(3) Such accessory works shall include the follow- inga

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(a) Closing, or diverting, uarrowing, widening, rais- ing, lowering or otherwise altering, permanently or temporarily, drains, sewers and public tho- roughfares.