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Surrender of title docu- ments.

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

AND RELAted provISIONS)

28. The Director may require any claimant to whom com- pensation is payable for land resumed under this Ordinance to surrender his documents of title to the Director as a condition of payment being made.

Delegation by the

Director of Public Works.

Second Schedule.

Service of documents.

Certain statements to be conclusive evidence.

PART VI

MISCELLANEOUS

29. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Director of Public Works may in writing authorize any public officer either generally or in any particular case to exercise or perform any of the powers, functions and duties conferred or imposed upon him by this Ordinance where the power, function or duty is expressed as being conferred or imposed on the Director but not where it is expressed as being conferred or imposed on the Director of Public Works. (2) For the purposes of any provision of this Ordinance appearing in the first column of the Second Schedule, the Director of Public Works shall not under subsection (1) authorize a public officer below the rank specified opposite thereto in the second column.

30. Without prejudice to any other provision of this Ordin- ance, any notice or other document required or authorized to be given to or served on any person for the purposes of this Ordin- ance or any proceedings thereunder before the Lands Tribunal may be personally given to or served on that person or may be sent to him by registered post.

31. Where it is stated-

(a) in any order under section 4(1), 6(1) or 10(1) respectively

that-

(i) the resumption of land;

(ii) the creation of an easement; or

(iii) the closure, alteration or work,

is ordered or authorized for the purposes of or incidental to the railway or the construction, operation, main- tenance or improvement thereof; or

(b) in a notice under section 12, 13, or 14 that the entry or the work therein described or required to be carried out is, in the opinion of the Director, necessary or required for the construction, operation, maintenance or improve- ment of the railway,

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