Section 10, An Act to amend the Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

If any land be so cut through and divided by the takingand appropriation of part of such land for any public works as to leave a portion thereof practically useless to the owner for the purpose for which he had been accustomed to use the land, it shall be lawful for the owner of such land, by notice in writing to be served on the Director of Surveys and Lands, at any time, before an agreement is come to, for the purchase of the land taken as aforesaid, or before the assessment of the price to be paid for such land under the provisions of this Ordinance, to require the Governor, on behalf of her Majesty the Queen, to purchase not only the land actually taken as aforesaid, but also the land rendered useless as aforesaid by reason of the severance aforesaid, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Governor to purchase the land rendered useless as aforesaid, or, if he refuse to do so, it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice, if he shall fine as a fact that any portion of the said land has been, by the severance, rendered useless as aforesaid, to adjudge that the Governor shall purchase the same and determine the price to be paid for the same in the same way as if such land was actually taken for any public work.