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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JUNE, 1889.
9. Every notice under the hand of the Chairman of the Board may be substituted for and shall be equivalent. to any form of process capable of being issued in any suit or action for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or com- pelling the production of documents; and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of the Chairman and shall not authorise the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three months; and every notice order or warrant of the Board may be served and executed in the same manner as notices orders and warrants of the Supreme Court may be served and executed under the procedure for the time being in force relating to civil suits.
10. If in the discharge of the duties devolving upon the Board there shall occur a difference of opinion between the members, the decision of any two of them shall have the same force and effect, as if all the members had concurred therein and any decision arrived at by the Board or a ma- jority thereof shall not be subject to appeal and shall be final as regards all parties interested and no award of com- pensation made with respect to the resumption of any land shall be liable to be set aside for irregularity or error in matter of form.
11. During the pendency of any proceedings before the Board if any member of the Board shall from any cause be or become unable to act, his place if he be a judge shall be filled by another judge or if he be a person appointed by the Governor or owner by some other person appointed by the Governor or owner as the case may require.
12. All lands resumed under the provisions of this Ordi- nance may be demised and granted by the Governor upon such terms and conditions and at such price whether by way of rent, premium, or otherwise and either by public auction or private contract as the Governor may determine.
13. All sums of money awarded and all costs against the Crown if any shall as soon as practicable after the award is published be paid by the Governor out of the Public Revenues, and all sums awarded exclusive of costs shall bear interest at the rate of eight dollars per cent from the date of the resumption of the land until payment.
14. In any notice to resume any land it shall be sufficient to state that such land is required for a public purpose without stating the particular public purpose for which the land is required' and a notice containing such statement shall be conclusive evidence that the land resumed is resumed for a public purpose.
15. Whenever the buildings or dwellings on any land are of insanitary construction as regards conditions of light and air, the Governor may, notwithstanding any of the powers of resumption herein contained or prior to the exer- cise of any such powers, permit the owner of such buildings or dwellings to reconstruct or rebuild the same or any part thereof upon such terms and conditions and subject to such security being given for the proper carrying out of such reconstruction or rebuilding as the Governor may in his discretion think fit.
16. Any Board constituted under this Ordinance may make such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the conduct of all proceedings before it.
17. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administering the Government notifies by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering the Government shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 18th day of June, 1889.
Notices by Board.
No appeal from decision of majority.
Vacancies on Board.
Re-grant of lands, &c.
Compensation to bear interest.
Notice of resumption to he conclusive ovidence of a resumption for a public purpose.
Arrangement with owner to reconstruct buildings.
Power for Board to regulate proceedings.
Suspending Clause.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 24th
day of June, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary,
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