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COLVIN HOUSE PRIVATE TREATY GRANT, SPECIAL CONDITION 14

Begins:

SPECIAL CONDITION 14

[Deletion. See

FAX from CIED 92] of 5/11/92

The Government shall have full power to resume,

re-enter upon

and re-take possession of all of the lot if required for the improvement of Hong Kong or for any other essential public

purpose whatsoever, twelve calendar months' notice being given

to the Grantee of its being so required, and upon the exercise

of this power the Grantee's tenancy of the land so resumed

shall cease, determine and be void, and the Grantee shall on

the expiration of the said notice quit and deliver up

possession of the land so resumed and the buildings thereon.

Upon the exercise of the power there shall be paid by the Government to the Grantee the following compensation only:-

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(a) in respect of the land resumed one fifty-fourth of such

amount as has been reasonably expended by the Grantee on site

formation of the said land and infrastructure multiplied by

the number of complete years in the portion of the said term

unexpired at the date of resumption;

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(b) in respect of any building or buildings or parts of any

building or buildings lawfully erected on the land resumed

such sum as shall be agreed to be the full cost of

equivalent re-instatement in alternative premises including

all ancillary costs reasonably incurred by the Grantee as

a result of the exercise of the Grantor's power under

Special Condition 14.

Ends

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J C Morris

Hong Kong Department

29 October 1992

Members of the

Steering Group (list attached)

HONG KONG: FUTURE CONSULATE-GENERAL STEERING COMMITTEE NEXT MEETING 6 NOVEMBER

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1.

You have kindly agreed to chair a meeting of the Steering Committee which has been scheduled for 1500 on Friday, 6 November in the Indian Office Chamber. At this meeting the OED Design team will report on the current state of the design, following consultations in Hong Kong with Mr Day's Hong Kong Consultative Committee and subsequent discussions with the architects, Farrells. I attach the following documents;

A: an annotated Agenda

B: a copy of the visit report (including records of the

meetings in Hong Kong of 12 and 14 October)

and

C: a note by Alex Smith, OED, summarising the effects of these discussions on the schedule of requirements (SOR).

NB: The one proposal by the Consultative Committee which has not been incorporated in the proposed revisions, pending consideration at our meeting, is that for an additional 30 car parking spaces.

2.

We expect to receive early next week revised copies of the Preliminary Sketch Plans (PSPs) for the building and rough costings of an additional 30 car parking spaces. I will circulate these as soon as we have them.

3.

I suggest that the Steering Committee be asked to:

(i) consider the Coordinating Committee's request for

an additional 30 car parking spaces;

(ii) endorse the proposed changes for incorporation into a revised SOR; and

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(iii)

that:-

approve the Preliminary Sketch Plans in order

(a) Farrells may be instructed to proceed with the next stage-"Final Sketch Design Scheme"; and

(b) OED can instruct the quantity surveyor (QS) to produce costings based on the preliminary sketch plans.

Members will, in effect, be asked to agree that the overall design is satisfactory and broadly meets our requirements. After this meeting it will still be possible to make minor detail (eg partition type) changes, but members should regard this as the point at which any outstanding major concerns should be settled. Once Farrells have been given authority to proceed, any major alterations to the design will cost us money and cause delays to the programme.

4. When the QS has produced the costings, a further meeting of the Steering Committee will be necessary to consider the design in the light of costs, and to recommend it for ministerial approval to go forward as a firm PES bid, (members will recall that there is a firm commitment in the PES capital programme based on our estimate of construction costs. This will need to be replaced by a firm costing).

Thoma

J C Morris

min.cons.gen.MORRIS

JEB

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