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MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY (LAND RESUMPTION Ord. No. 66/74

AND RELATED PROVISIONS)

(2) A copy of every plan and map prepared for the pur- poses of subsection (1) and signed by the Director of Public Works shall be deposited in the Land Office and shall be available for inspection by the public free of charge at such offices of the Government, during the hours when those offices are normally open to the public, as the Director of Public Works thinks fit.

(3) Any plan or map prepared for the purposes of sub- section (1) and any marking or endorsement on any such plan or map may be amended and any plan or map may be replaced by a substitute plan or map but the Director of Public Works shall as soon as possible cause to be likewise amended, or replaced with the substitute, every copy referred to in subsection (2) and certify the amendment or substitution in such manner as he thinks sufficient.

(4) The Director of Public Works shall within 21 days of the deposit of a copy of a plan or map in the Land Office or of any amendment to such copy or the deposit of a substitute plan or map cause a notice of such deposit or amendment to be published in the Gazette in Chinese and English containing—

(a) a general description of the plan or map or of the nature and extent of the amendment or substitution; and

(b) particulars of the places and times at which a copy of the plan or map, or details of the amendment or a copy of the substitute plan or map may be inspected by the public in conformity with subsection (2).

(5) No person shall have a right of objection to the delinea- tion of land in any plan or map prepared for the purposes of subsection (1) or to any amendment thereto or substitute plan or map prepared under subsection (3) and the fact that land is therein delineated as being within the railway area shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence that it may be required to be resumed or that easements in, under or over it may need to be created for the purposes of and incidental to the railway.

4. (1) The Governor may by order direct that any land within the railway area shall be resumed for the purposes of and incidental to the railway.

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Governor may order

resumption of land.