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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.

HONGKONG.

No. 28 OF 1911.

An Ordinance to further amend the Crown

Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900.

LS

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor,

[25th August, 1911.]

Short title.

Repeals section 4 (4)

of Ordinance No. 10 of 1900.

Amends section 5 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1900.

Amends section 8 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1900 as

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, us follows :-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the "Crown Lands Resumption Amendment Ordinance, 1911".

2. Sub-section (4) of section 4 of the Crown, Lands Re- sumption Ordinance, 1900, is hereby repealed.

3. Section 5 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, is hereby amended by being made sub-section (1) of section 5 of the said Ordinance and there shall be added thereto the following sub-scetions:-

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(2.) The Governor may appoint some person to

act as clerk to a Board.

(3.) The remineration of any member of a Board shall be at a rate according to the amount of work, the time occupied, and the magnitude of the interests involved, and such rate shall be determined in each case by the Chairman of the Board in his discretion at the conclusion of the arbitration; provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to authorise the payment or receipt of remuneration in the case of a public servant who is not permitted to receive remuneration for acting as a member of a Board.

(4.) The Governor-in-Commeil shall determine the

remuneration of the clerk to a Board.”

4. The Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, as amended by the Crown Lands Resumption Amendment Ordinance, 1910, is hereby further amended by the repeal of sub-section (2) of section 8 thereof and by the sub- amended by stitution therefor of the following sub-section :-

Ordinance No. 18 of 1910.

Amends

section 14 of

Ordinance No, 10 of 1900.

Amends

Ordinance

No. 1 of 1900 as

“(2.) to award costs, including remuneration to the members of the Board and to the clerk to the Board (not exceeding the amounts determined as aforesaid) in its discretion, either for or against the Crown or for or against any parties claiming compensation, such costs, if desired by the Crow or any party, to be taxed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court."

5. Section 14 of the Crown Lands Rosumption Ordin- ance, 1900, is hereby amended by the deletion of the words seven dollars per cent, and by the substitution of the words "eight dollars per cent ”.

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6. Whenever the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, hereinafter calle:) Ordinance No. 10 of 1900, im printed or read or construed with the Crown Lands Re- amended by sumption Amendment Ordinance, 1910, hercinafter called Ordinance No. 18 of 1910, incorporated, the following pro- visions shall apply :-

Ordinance

No. IS of 1910.

(a.) Sections 2,3, 4 and 5 of Ordinance No. 18 of 1910

· shall be introduced after section 4 of Ordinance Na 10 of 1900 as section 5, of which the afore-

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