Coast Protection Act, 1963
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Notice to reputed proprietors, occupiers, etc. |
9.—(1) Where the promoting authority have made a declaration under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 8 of this Act in relation to a coast protection scheme, they shall— | |
(a) serve on any person named in the scheme as a reputed proprietor, owner or rated or other occupier of any land proposed to be compulsorily acquired or substantially interfered with or of any easement, fishery, water-right, navigation-right or other right or of any private road or bridge proposed to be compulsorily acquired, restricted, terminated or otherwise interfered with a notice stating that the scheme has been prepared, specifying the place or places at which and the period during which a copy of the scheme will be available for inspection in pursuance of this Act and informing him that the scheme proposes the compulsory acquisition of or interference with some land, right or other property (which land, right or property and the proposed interference (if any) shall be fully described in the notice) reputed to be owned or occupied by him; | ||
(b) serve on every person who is the local authority (not being a council to which a copy of the scheme has been sent in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 6 of this Act) charged with the maintenance of any public road or bridge proposed in the scheme to be diverted, removed or otherwise interfered with a notice informing such authority of the preparation of the scheme and of the diversion, removal or interference proposed in the scheme to be made in respect of such road or bridge, and | ||
(c) serve on one or more of the persons who are the trustees of any trust fund for the upkeep of works which may be interfered with by the execution of the scheme a notice stating that the scheme has been prepared and that execution thereof may interfere with those works. | ||
(2) A notice served on any person in pursuance of this section shall contain a statement informing him that he may, within two months after the service of the notice on him, send to the promoting authority all such observations (if any) as he thinks proper in regard to the matters to which the notice relates. | ||
(3) A person on whom a notice is served in pursuance of this section may, at any time within two months after the service of the notice on him, send to the promoting authority all such observations (if any) in regard to the matters to which the notice relates as he thinks proper. | ||
(4) A notice required by this section to be served on any person may be served by registered post and, where the address of such person is not known, the envelope containing the notice may be addressed to him at the lands or the place or situation of the right or property to which the notice relates. |