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CROWN RECLAMATION (HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT) [IV – 355 CROWN RECLAMATION (HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT) Act No.

19 of 1989 CROWN RECLAMATION (HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT) ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1.

Short title.

2.

Enables reclamation of portion of the Harbour of Nassau Schedule.

3.

Compensation for obstruction or private rights.

4.

Determination of compensation.

5.

Reclaimed land to vest in the Crown.


SCHEDULE An Act to improve the Harbour of Nassau and to afford greater facilities for the passage of pedestrians and vehicles along Woodes Rogers Walk.

19 of 1989 [Assent 5th December, 1989] [Commencement 11th December, 1989] 1.

This Act may be cited as the Crown Reclamation Short title.

(Harbour Development Project) Act, 1989.

2.


It shall be lawful for the Crown to reclaim, fill in and build upon all that portion of the Harbour of Nassau which is described in the Schedule and thereupon any private right of any person in or over that portion of the Harbour, or any part thereof, shall cease and be extinguished.

3.
3.

If the reclamation, filling in or building as provided by section 2 injuriously affects or obstructs the exercise of any private right by any person in or over any portion of the Harbour of Nassau, that person shall be entitled to the payment of compensation which shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.

Enables reclamation of portion of the Harbour of Nassau Schedule.

Compensation for obstruction or private rights.

4.
4.

In the absence of agreement as to the payment of compensation or the amount thereof such shall be ascertained in the manner and to the extent prescribed by the Acquisition of Land Act with respect to compensa- tion for land taken otherwise than by agreement.

Determination of compensation.

Ch.

252.


––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS LRO 1/2002 IV – 356] CROWN RECLAMATION (HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT) Reclaimed land to vest in the Crown.

5.

On the completion of the reclamation, filling in and building as provided by section 2, all that portion of the Harbour of Nassau so reclaimed, filled in and built upon shall be vested in the Crown.
SCHEDULE (Section 2) All that portion of the sea bed (hereinafter referred to as the reclamation zone) forming part of the Harbour of Nassau, New Providence, which lies between Navy Lion Road and East Street, which reclamation zone extends northward fifty feet, beyond the point beginning on the bulkhead of Nassau Harbour where the eastern side of Navy Lion Road meets the sea, thence eastward in a straight line for an approximate distance of nine hundred feet, thence northward in a straight line to its intersection with the Old Prince George Dock bulkhead for an approximate distance of one hundred feet, thence eastward along the southern edge of the bulkhead of Prince George Dock for an approximate distance of seven hundred and thirty feet, thence southward in a straight line to its intersection at a right angle with the bulkhead of Nassau Harbour for an approximate distance of one hundred and thirty feet, thence westward along the edge of the bulkhead of Nassau Harbour for an approximate distance of one thousand six hundred and forty feet, to the point of commencement.
The reclamation zone includes all of the sea bed which immediately fronts Parliament Square, the Public Straw Market and Woodes Rogers Walk and is shown coloured pink on copies of the 1:1200 Topographical Map of New Providence, which is on record in File S317/2 in the Ministry of Works and Lands.

STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS LRO 1/2002