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(2) The chairman of the Board shall be, at the discretion of the Governor, either such judge as the judges may mutually arrange or a magistrate or justice of the peace nominated by the Governor, and the two other members shall consist of one member nominated by the Governor and the other by the former owner of the land resumed, or if he has failed before or within one week after the date of expira- tion of the notice of intended resumption to nominate in writing a member then it shall be lawful for the chairman to nomi- nate any other person on behalf of such

owner.

(3) The members nominated by the Governor and such owner or either of them may be, but the person nominated by the chairman on behalf of such owner shall not be, a member of the Colonial Civil Service.

(4) The constitution of the Board shall be notified in the Gazette and within four- teen days from such notification it shall commence its sittings at such time and place as the chairman may, by notification in the Gazette appoint.

(5) The Governor may appoint some person to act as clerk to the Board, and determine his remuneration.

(6) The remuneration 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 shall be determined in each case by the chairman at the conclusion of the arbitra- tion : Provided that nothing herein shall authorise the payment of remuneration to a public servant who is not permitted to receive remuneration as a member of the Board.

3. Section 10 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordi- Amends nance, 1900, is amended,-

Ordinance No. 10 of

(a) by the deletion of the words "claiming com- 1900, s. 10.

pensation" in the tenth line of paragraph (1)

thereof; and

() by the insertion of the words

or any persons whom the Board may

find entitled to compensation,"

after the word "compensation," in the fourth line of paragraph (2) thereof.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance substitutes four new sections for sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900. The repealed sections provided alternative methods of procedure for the resumption of land required for public purposes depend- ing on whether or not the value of the land exceeded five hundred dollars for any registered lot or portion of a lot. Thus the more elaborate procedure had to be resorted to where only one lot of over five hundred