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s.14
Vesting of private streets in the Government
(1)
If a Government lease, or an agreement
for surrender relating to leased land, contains a
provision that the lessee shall, when required,
hand back any private street to the Government
free of cost, the Authority may, by notice in the
Gazette, declare the private street, or such part
thereof as may be specified in the notice, to be a
public street.
(Amended
29 of 1998 s. 105
)
(2)
The Authority shall, within 7 days after
the publication of a notice under subsection (1),
register a copy thereof in the Land Registry
together with a plan showing the land declared by
such notice to be a public street.
(Amended
8 of 1993 s. 2
)
(3)
Upon the registration under subsection (2)
in the Land Registry of a copy of a notice
published under subsection
(1
)—
(Amended
8 of 1993 s. 2
)
(a)
all rights and obligations of the lessee
in, upon or over the private street, or the part
of the private street specified in the notice,
shall be extinguished; and
(b)
the private street, or such part of the
private street, shall vest in the Government free
from the rights of any person in the same manner
and to the same effect as if it had been
surrendered to the Government.
(Amended
29 of 1998 s. 105
)