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and Pottinger Street and shown and delineated in red upon a plan signed by the Director of Public Works dated the 2nd of February, 1939, and deposited in the Land Office.

2. A pier approximately 15,640 square feet in area projecting into the harbour beyond the said reclamation and shown and delineated in green upon the said plan.

3. A temporary pier (approximately 80 feet long and 25 feet wide) projecting into the harbour between the said reclamation and Douglas Wharf about midway between Pottinger Street and Douglas Street, and shown and delineated hatched red upon the said plan.

Objects and Reasons.

1. As stated in the preamble to this Bill, it was provided by the Public Reclamations Validation and Clauses Ordinance, No. 40 of 1936, that the provisions of Part II of that Ordinance (which relates to the notification of projected reclamations and public works over unleased Crown foreshore and sea bed, to the hearing of objections, to the payment of compensation where due and to the extinction of pre-existing public and private rights) shall be deemed to be incorporated, unless expressly varied or excepted, in any future Ordinance authorizing any undertaking for reclamation or other works of a public nature over and upon unleased Crown foreshore and sea bed, provisionally and subject to the definitive approval of the Governor in Council.

2. The object of this Bill is to give such provisional authorization in the case of the reclamation and piers described in the Schedule.

3. The Bill is drafted on the general lines of Ordinance No. 21 of 1937, the Stores Pier (North Point) and Additional Pipe Lines Ordinance, 1937, with an additional clause applying section 6 of Ordinance No. 40 of 1936 to one of the projected undertakings for a limited period only.

4. Section 6 of the 1936 Ordinance provided (subject to sections 7, 8 and 9 thereof) for the complete extinction of pre-existing public and private rights in, upon and over the Crown foreshore and sea bed affected by the authorized undertaking. In the case of a temporary pier it is unnecessary to extinguish such rights for longer than the pier continues to be required and maintained.

March, 1939.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.