CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION.
No. 10 of 1900.
(b) "Land means Crown land of whatever description (whether held under Crown lease or other title recognised by the Crown), or any part or section thereof, in Hongkong and the New Territories, and includes buildings erected thereon.
(c) "Owner means the person registered or entitled to be registered in the Land Office in respect of any land sought to be resumed, or, if such person is absent from the Colony, or cannot be found, or is bankrupt or dead, his agent or representative in the Colony.
(d) "Resumption for a public purpose" includes-
(i) resumption of insanitary property for the purpose of securing the erection of improved dwellings or buildings thereon or the sanitary improvement of such property; and
(ii) resumption of any land upon which any building is erected which, by reason of its proximity to or contact with any other buildings, seriously interferes with ventilation or otherwise makes or conduces to make such other buildings unfit for human habitation or dangerous or injurious to health; and
(iii) resumption for any purpose connected with the naval or military forces of the Crown, including the volunteer force in this Colony; and
(iv) resumption for any purpose of whatsoever description whether ejusdem generis with any of the above purposes or not, which the Governor in Council may decide to be a public purpose.
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3.-(1) Whenever the Governor in Council decides that the resumption of any land is required for a public purpose, it shall be lawful for the Governor to enter into private negotiations with the owner of such land, or any other person having any proprietary interest therein, for the purchase of such land and all the right, title, and interest therein, and, in the case of the failure (in the opinion of the Governor) of such negotiations, or in case it is not known who the owner is, or in case the owner is absent from the Colony or cannot be found, to give notice that such land will be resumed on the expiration of four months from the publication thereof and that such compensation will be paid as may be awarded in the manner hereinafter provided.
* As amended by No. 14 of 1921 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION.
No. 10 of 1900.
(b) "Land means Crown land of whatever description (whether held under Crown lease or other title recognised by the Crown), or any part or section thereof, in Hongkong and the New Territories, and includes buildings erected thereon.
(c) "Owner means the person registered or entitled to be registered in the Land Office in respect of any land sought to be resumed, or, if such person is absent from the Colony, or cannot be found, or is bankrupt or dead, his agent or representative in the Colony.
(d) "Resumption for a public purpose" includes-
(i) resumption of insanitary property for the purpose of securing the erection of improved dwellings or buildings thereon or the sanitary improvement of such property; and
(ii) resumption of any land upon which any building is erected which, by reason of its proximity to or contact with any other buildings, seriously interferes with ventilation or otherwise makes or conduces to make such other buildings to be in a condition unfit for human habitation or dangerous or injurious to health; and
(iii) resumption for any purpose connected with the naval or military forces of the Crown, including the volunteer force in this Colony; and
(iv) resumption for any purpose of whatsoever description whether ejusdem generis with any of the above purposes or not, which the Governor in Council may decide to be a public
purpose.
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3.-(1) Whenever the Governor in Council decides that Power of the resumption of any land is required for a public purpose, of land for it shall be lawful for the Governor to enter into private public negotiations with the owner of such land, or any other person purpose. having any proprietary interest therein, for the purchase of such land and all the right, title, and interest therein, and, in the case of the failure (in the opinion of the Governor) of such negotiations, or in case it is not known who the owner is, or in case the owner is absent from the Colony or cannot be found, to give notice that such land will be resumed on the expiration of four months from the publication thereof and that such compensation will be paid as may be awarded in the manner hereinafter provided.
* As amended by No. 14 of 1921 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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