HAWKSBILL CREEK, GRAND BAHAMA (DEEP WATER HARBOUR AND INDUSTRIAL AREA)

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HAWKSBILL CREEK, GRAND BAHAMA (DEEP WATER HARBOUR AND INDUSTRIAL AREA) PORT

AREA ORDER, 1971 (Order made under clause 2(19) of the Agreement)

[Commencement 22nd April, 1971] WHEREAS under the provisions of subclause (19) of

clause 2 of the Agreement dated the Fourth day of August, A.D., 1955 and recorded in the Registry of Records of the Colony in Volume 8 (New Series) at pages 447 to 479 as amended by subclause (13) of clause 2 of the Supplemental Agreement dated the Eleventh day of July, 1960 and recorded in the said Registry of Records in Volume 353 (New Series) at pages 186 to 350 the Government covenanted that upon the Port Authority from time to time submitting to the Colonial Secretary proper survey plans of any additional lands purchased either from the Crown or from private owners adjoining any part of the Port Area and lying north or south of that part of the existing Port Area bounded westwardly by a line drawn across the said Island on a bearing north 21 degrees 49’ east at a distance of three and a half miles westward of the West Bank of Hawksbill Creek and eastwardly of a line drawn across the said Island north and south at a point five hundred feet eastward of the East Bank of Gold Rock Creek where it joins the sea on the south side of the said Island the Government shall forthwith declare such additional land to be a part of the Port Area within the meaning of the said Agreement dated the Fourth day of August, 1955 by Order in Council published in the Gazette: and WHEREAS under the provisions of clause 14 of a further Agreement dated the First day of March, A.D., 1966 and recorded in the Registry of Records in Volume 963 at pages 219 to 268 it was provided that the expressions “Order in Council” and “Colonial Secretary’’ in the said Agreements shall be read and construed as meaning respectively “Order by the Governor” and “the Secretary to the Cabinet’’:

AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the said provisions of subclause (19) of clause 2 of the said Agreement dated the Fourth day of August, 1955 as amended aforesaid The Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited on the 17th day of December, 1970 submitted to the Secretary to the Cabinet a proper survey plan of 14,918.52 acres of land purchased

S.I. 31/1971

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from the Crown as shown on the Plan on record in the Department of Lands and Surveys as Plan No. 102 of Grand Bahama being land adjoining part of the Port Area already declared as such and within the westward and eastward limits hereinbefore recited: and WHEREAS it is expedient that the said 14,918.52 acres should be declared to be part of the Port Area:

NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Governor by the said subclause (19) of clause 2 of the said Agreement dated the Fourth day of August, A.D., 1955 as amended as aforesaid the following Order is hereby made:

1. This Order may be cited as the Hawksbill Creek, Grand Bahama (Deep Water Harbour and Industrial Area) (Port Area) Order, 1971.

2. It is hereby declared that the said land delineated on the said survey plan shall be part of the Port Area within the meaning of the said Agreement.

HAWKSBILL CREEK, GRAND BAHAMA (DEEP WATER HARBOUR AND INDUSTRIAL AREA)

(PORT AREA) ORDER, 1972 (Order made under clause 2(19) of the Agreement)

[Commencement 23rd March, 1972] WHEREAS under the provisions of subclause (19) of

clause 2 of the Agreement dated the Fourth day of August, A.D., 1955 and recorded in the Registry of Records of the Colony in Volume 8 (New Series) at pages 447 to 479 as amended by subclause (13) of Clause 2 of the Suppplemental Agreement dated the Eleventh day of July, 1960 and recorded in the said Registry of Records in Volume 353 (New Series) at pages 186 to 350 the Government covenanted that upon the Port Authority from time to time submitting to the Colonial Secretary proper survey plans of any additional lands purchased either from the Crown or from private owners adjoining any part of the Port Area and lying North or South of that part of the existing Port Area bounded Westwardly by a line drawn

Citation.

Declaration

S.I. 63/1972