Section 19 (2), The Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

(1) When any land sold or leased under this Ordinanceexceed two hundred acres the grantor may at any time enter and resume any portion of such lands for roads, railways, canals, water, channels or trigonometrical stations or any other public undertaking without paying compensation for the land, but compensation shall be paid for buildings or crops destroyed or damaged. Provided that in the event of a larger portion than four per centum of such land being resumed for any such purpose as aforesaid there shall be paid to the owner or lessee, as the case may be, compensation for the land taken in excess of such portion (2) When any land sold or leased under this Ordinance does not exceed two hundred acres the grantor may at any time enter and resume any portion of such lands for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1), paying compensation for the land taken. (3) Whenever land which has been leased is resumed under this section the lessee shall be entitled to a proportionate reduction in his rent. (4) The grantor may appoint any officers of the Government, their servants and agents, to exercise the powers reserved to him by this section. (5) Compensation payable under this section shall not exceed, in the case of buildings or crops, the market value of such buildings or crops, and in the case of land resumed the market value of such land. (6) The compensation to be awarded under this section shall, if not agreed upon between the grantor and the claimant, be determined by the Supreme Court in the like manner as compensation is determined under the Public Lands Ordinance. (7) Resumption of land under this section may be effected before the compensation (if any) is paid, either by actual entry on the land resumed, or by service of notice of resumption on the owner or lessee. Power to erect telegraph poles. Saving of public thoroughfares. Resumption of lands for roads, railways, etc Cap. 193. A 74 A 75