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SQUATTERS.

No. 5 of 1890.

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8. If in any claim to a lease it appears to the Board that Power of any witness has committed wilful and corrupt perjury, the Board respect to may, for the purpose of punishing such perjury, exercise powers witness similar to and to the same extent as those conferred on the Supreme perjury.

committing Court by section 31 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, for the No. 3 of 1879. punishment of perjury in any cause, action, or suit.

process.

9. Any summons, order, warrant, or direction of the Board shall Issue of be deemed to be duly made with the authority of the Board if it is signed by the chairman of the Board and issued by the secretary, and any such summons, order, or warrant so signed and issued in connexion with and for the purposes of any claim to a lease shall be equivalent to any form of summons, order, or warrant issued in any action in the Supreme Court for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, or compelling the production of documents, or otherwise for the purposes of any action.

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10. The Board may allow or disallow any claim to a lease or allow Power to the same as to part of the claim or subject to such conditions as it allow claim. may think fit.

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11. The Director of Public Works shall, before the hearing of the Fixing rent claims relating to land in any village or district, fix the several rents ing of claim to be charged in any leases which may be granted, and the amount of the rent so fixed shall be communicated in the notice for claims referred to in section 4 (2); but the Governor may, on the recom- mendation of the Board or of his own motion, grant the lease in any particular case with a rent lower than that previously fixed by the Director of Public Works.

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12.-(1) In any case where the Board allows the claim a lease Granting of shall be granted unless the Governor in his discretion declines to lease where grant a lease, in which case the claim shall be referred to the ed unless Director of Public Works who may negotiate with the claimant in declines. respect of the grant of a lease of other lands in lieu of the holding in relation to which the claim is made.

(2) In the event of a failure to effect such negotiation the Board shall decide what compensation shall be paid to the claimant in respect of such holding and of any building or fixture, the removal of which is in the opinion of the Director of Public Works

* As amended by No. 51 of 1911.

As amended by No. 8 of 1910 and No. 1 of 1912.

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