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3.1.5 Procedures for consultation and information

prior to resumption are being shortcut

because of the urgency of the requirement

for land, and need improvement. (Paragraph

2.7)

Mere adjustment of the present system will not

suffice to right it; a rethink of the principles involved

is necessary. (Paragraph 2.8)

8.3

General principles to which any new system must

adhere are :

3.3.1

8.3.2

8.3.3

it must be fair and acceptable to those

affected by it; (Paragraph 3.1.1)

it must provide for a means of proceeding

with a large scale resumption programme

for urban development in the New Towns

and Market Towns of the New Territories;

(Paragraph 3.1.2)

it must be capable of reasonably easy

administration and explanation;

(Paragraph 3.1.3)

8.3.4 it must, as far as possible, be capable

of rational explanation; (Paragraph 3.1.4)

8.3.5 it must provide for a system of continuous

review of the

compensation rate.

(Paragraph 3.1.4)

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