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No. 2.]
Saving of remedies of the Crown for rent and taxes and of owner or landlord for rent and taxes. Application of the Ordinance to other properties.
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1864.] of any loss of rent whatever in respect of any lands resumed under this Ordinance.
29. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prejudice or interfere with right of the Crown to recover payment of five-sixths of the Crown's payable in respect of any land resumed under this Ordinance for half-year ending the 24th day of June, 1894, or of two-thirds of rates or taxes for the quarter ending the 30th day of June, 1894, any owner or landlord to claim from his assignees, sub-lessees, or tenants any sums payable to him in respect of Crown rents or taxes to the rat dates, under any assignment, lease, or agreement, or to interfere with the rights or remedies of any owner or landlord for damages for the breach, or non-observance, or non-performance, prior to the 1st day of June, 1894, of any covenant or contract entered into by any assignee, sub-lessee, or tenant in reference to any land or house and not rendered incapable of performance by the resumption under this Ordinance of the land or house.
30.—(1.) If before, or within six months after, the commencement of this Ordinance, the Sanitary Board or any Committee thereof certifies to the Governor, in writing under the hand of its chairman, that any houses within the City of Victoria, other than the lands and buildings hereby resumed, have been closed and shut up by the order of the Sanitary Board, or by the order of any Committee thereof, by reason of their insanitary condition and for the purpose of preventing the spread of the Bubonic Plague, and that it is expedient that such buildings should be destroyed and demolished and the sites whereon they stand resumed by the Crown, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, after the commencement of this Ordinance, by notification published in The Gazette, to declare the resumption of such lands and buildings by the Crown, and, on such publication, such lands and buildings shall revert to and become vested in the Crown from the date specified in and by such notification, and all the rights of the owners and persons interested in, to, or over the same shall absolutely cease and determine.
And (2.) Such notification shall contain a schedule describing the lands and buildings resumed in a form similar to the First Schedule to this Ordinance, and, on the publication thereof, all the provisions of this Ordinance shall mutatis mutandis apply to the property mentioned in such Schedule and to the owners or persons interested therein, and the Board hereby constituted shall have the same powers, authorities, and duties in connexion therewith as hereinbefore provided in respect of the lands and buildings described in the First Schedule to this Ordinance.
134
No. 2.]
Saving of
remedies of
the Crown for rent and taxes
and of owner or landlord
for rent and taxes.
Application
of the Ordi-..
"nance to other
properties.
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 186 (4.) of any loss of rent whatever in respect of any lands resum
under this Ordinance.
29. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prejudice or interfere with right of the Crown to recover payment of five-sixths of the Crowns payable in respect of any land resumed under this Ordinance for half-year ending the 24th day of June, 1894, or of two-thirds of rates or taxes for the quarter ending the 30th day of June, 1894, any owner or landlord to claim from his assignees, sub-lessees, or tenan any sums payable to him in respect of Crown rents or taxes to the rat dates, under any assignment, lease, or agreement, or to interfere wit the rights or remedies of any owner or landlord for damages for th breach, or non-observance, or non-performance, prior to the 1st day ofl June, 1894, of any covenant or contract entered into by any assignee sub-lessee, or tenant in reference to any land or house and not rendered incapable of performance by the resumption under this Ordinance of the land or house.
30.—(1.) If before, or within six months after, the commencement of this Ordinance, the Sanitary Board or any Committee thereof certifle to the Governor, in writing under the hand of its chairman, that any houses within the City of Victoria, other than the lands and building hereby resumed, have been closed and shut up by the order of the
Sanitary Board, or by the order of any Committee thereof, by T
of
their insanitary condition and for the purpose of preventing the spread of the Bubonic Plague, and that it is expedient that such buildings should be destroyed and demolished and the sites whereon they stand resumed by the Crown, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, after the commencement of this Ordinance, by notification published in The Gazette, to declare the resumption of such lands and buildings by the Crown, and, on such publication, such lands and buildings shall revert to and become vested in the Crown from the date specified in and by such notification, and all the rights of the owners and person interested in, to, or over the same shall absolutely - cease determine.
And
(2.) Such notification shall contain a schedule describing the lands and buildings resumed in a form similar to the First Schedule to Ordinance, and, on the publication thereof, all the provisions of this Ordinance shall mutatis mutandis apply to the property mentioned such Schedule and to the owners or persons interested therein, and the Board hereby constituted shall have the same powers, authorities, and duties in connexion therewith as hereinbefore provided in respect of the lands and buildings described in the First Schedule to this Ordinance
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