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CHAPTER
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HAWKSBILL CREEK, GRAND BAHAMA (DEEP WATER HARBOUR AND INDUSTRIAL AREA,
(AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT) (NO. 2)
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ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS
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SECTION
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Governor-General authorised to enter into
Agreement.
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Agreement to be sealed with Public Seal.
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SCHEDULE.
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CHAPTER 263
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HAWKSBILL CREEK,
GRAND BAHAMA (DEEP WATER HARBOUR AND INDUSTRIAL AREA) (AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT)
(NO. 2)
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An Act to
authorise the entering into of an agreement with The Grand Bahama Port
Authority Limited, further amending and extending the existing agreements with
that company dated the 4th day of August, A.D., 1955 and the 11th day of July,
A.D., 1960 respectively.
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48 of 1965
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[Commencement 11th
September, 1965]
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1. This Act may be cited as the Hawksbill Creek, Grand
Bahama (Deep Water Harbour and Industrial Area)(Amendment of Agreement)(No. 2)
Act.
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Short title.
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2. The Governor-General is hereby authorised, at any
time within six months after the coming into operation of this Act, to enter
into an Agreement, substantially in the form set out in the Schedule hereto,
with The Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited, a Company incorporated in the Colony.
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Governor-General authorised to enter into Agreement.
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3. The Public Seal of the Colony shall be affixed to
the said Agreement and the same shall be signed by the Governor on behalf of
the Government of the Colony.
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Agreement to be sealed with Public Seal.
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SCHEDULE
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NEW PROVIDENCE
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BAHAMA ISLANDS
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THIS
AGREEMENT made the ..................................... day of
........................................ A.D., 1965 BETWEEN His Excellency Sir
Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, Knight Grand Cross of The Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of The Royal Victorian
Order, Officer of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the Bahama Islands acting for and on behalf of
the Government of the Bahama Islands (who and whose successors in office for
the time being are hereinafter referred to and included in the term "the
Government") of the one part AND The Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited
a company incorporated under the laws of the said Bahama Islands and carrying
on business in the Colony (hereinafter referred to as "The Port
Authority" which expression where the context so admits shall include
their assigns) of the other part WHEREAS:
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(A)
This Agreement is supplemental to an Agreement
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* (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Agreement") dated the Fourth day of August, A.D., 1955 and made between His Excellency the Honourable Anthony Geoffrey Hopwood Gardner-Brown, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Bahama Islands of the one part and the Port Authority of the other part now of record in the Registry of Records of the Bahama Islands in Volume 8 (New Series) at pages 447 to 479 which said Principal Agreement was amended and extended by a Supplemental Agreement
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§ (hereinafter referred to as "the Supplemental Agreement") dated the Eleventh day of July, A.D., 1960 and made between His Excellency Sir Robert de Stapledon Stapledon Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Bahama Islands acting for and on behalf of the Government of the Bahama Islands of the one part and the Port Authority of the other part now of record in the said Registry of Records in Volume 353 at pages 186 to 360 inclusive;
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(B)
The
Port Authority (as the Government hereby acknowledges) have duly fulfilled to
the satisfaction of the Government the obligations contained in subclause (1)
of clause 1 of the Supplemental Agreement to construct and furnish or to cause
to be constructed and furnished a first class de luxe resort hotel containing
not less than Two hundred (200) bedrooms with all reasonable amenities within
the Port Area (as that expression is used in the Principal Agreement) and have
up to the date hereof duly operated the same or caused the same to be operated
in accordance with the standards prescribed by the said subclause (1) and have
otherwise duly observed and performed all their other obligations in or in
respect of the Principal Agreement as amended by the Supplemental Agreement;
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(C)
The
Port Authority have on their part agreed to enter into the covenants
hereinafter contained relating to the construction of housing accommodation
schools and medical clinics and the provision of water electricity and other
utility services;
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(D)
The
Government is satisfied that it is desirable for the purposes of encouraging
and facilitating further development in the Island of Grand Bahama and of
ensuring the proper and efficient administration thereof that the provisions of
the Principal Agreement and the Supplemental Agreement should be amended in the
manner hereinafter appearing and that such further agreements should be made as
are hereinafter contained; and
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(E)
Up
to the date hereof the total number of Licensees within the meaning of
paragraph (c) of subclause (1) of clause 2 of the Principal Agreement is not
more than Five hundred and Sixty (560) and the persons and Companies whose
names are contained in the First Schedule hereto amount to not less than
four-fifths (4/5ths) in number of the said Licensees and such persons and
Companies in pursuance of subclause (8) of clause 3 of the Principal Agreement
have consented to the amendments to the Principal Agreement and the
Supplemental Agreement hereinafter contained and the other provisions of these
presents in witness whereof the said persons have severally set their hands and
seals and the seals of the several Companies have been duly affixed hereto or
upon true certified copies of the text of these presents which copies have been
deposited with the Government and are now of record in the said Registry of
Records in Volume ..................... at pages ....................;
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NOW THIS AGREEMENT made in consideration of the premises
WITNESSETH as follows:
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1.
The Port Authority hereby covenant with the Government that unless prevented
from so doing by Act of God, insurrection, riot, civil, commotion, war or
warlike operations, strikes, lockouts, force majeure, or any unforeseen
or extraordinary circumstances which may be reasonably considered to be beyond
the control of the Port Authority (including the inability of the Port
Authority to obtain or employ the necessary labour or to obtain or secure the
necessary materials)-
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(1)
Subject
to the conditions hereinafter provided the Port Authority will construct or procure
the construction of dwelling houses in the Port Area of such a type as will
afford suitable accommodation for families of low and middle class income
groups to the intent that such dwelling houses shall be sold to persons wishing
to own and occupy the same such dwelling houses to be erected on such site or
sites and be of such size and design and to be provided with such services and
amenities as the Port Authority shall from time to time decide subject to the
prior approval of the Minister for Housing which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed.
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The
Conditions attaching to this covenant are that:
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(a)
the
liability of the Port Authority hereunder shall be limited to the erection of
One thousand (1,000) dwelling houses provided always that if it should appear
that there is a demand by persons of the said income groups wishing to own and
occupy dwelling houses of the type aforesaid in excess of the figure of One
thousand (1,000) the Port Authority at the request of the Minister for Housing
would be prepared to consider the erection of such further dwelling houses as
may be reasonably necessary to meet such demand;
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(b)
the
said dwelling houses shall be erected and completed from time to time in such
numbers as may reasonably be necessary to meet the current demand by persons of
the said income groups for the purchase of such dwelling houses in the Port
Area the first Two hundred (200) of such dwelling houses to be erected and
completed within Eighteen (18) months from the date of these presents; and
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(c)
in
regard to any dwelling house to be erected hereunder the Port Authority or any
company nominated by them may be approved by the Minister for Housing as a
lender and also as a builder for the purposes of The Housing Act 1960 or any Act
amending or replacing the same.
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For
the purposes of paragraph (a) of this clause "dwelling house" means a
house which provides facilities for living, sleeping, eating, food preparation
and sanitation for one family being facilities which are not designed to be
shared with the occupants of any other house.
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(2)
The
Port Authority will give the Government written notice at least once every Six
(6) months of the number and location of the dwelling houses referred to in
subclause (1) of this clause the construction of which has been commenced or
completed since the immediately preceding notice and will so far as reasonably
possible make available for purchase (at the going prices thereof) such of the
said dwelling houses as may be required for occupation by any Headmaster or
Assistant Headmaster or other teacher for the time being employed in any school
or are required by the Government for occupation by persons for the time being
in the whole time employment of the Government for government purposes (which expression
shall have the same meaning as in paragraph (c) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of
the Principal Agreement as substituted by clause 6 hereof).
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(3)
If
the Minister for Education shall:
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(a)
within
One (1) year after the date of these presents give to the Port Authority
written notice (hereinafter called the "First Notice") that he
requires one of the following namely either (i) the construction of One (1)
primary school providing reasonable accommodation for the instruction of not
less than Eight hundred (800) children either within the Port Area or within
the area (hereinafter in this clause called "the Specified Area")
comprising the Settlements in the Island of Grand Bahama known as Pinder's
Point Lewis Yard and Hunter's or (ii) the construction of Two (2) primary
schools each providing reasonable accommodation for the instruction of not less
than Four hundred (400) children and one to be either within the Port Area or
within the Specified Area and the other to be either within or without the Port
Area; and/or
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(b)
at
any time within Ten (10) years after the date of these presents give to the
Port Authority written notice (hereinafter called "the Second
Notice") that he requires the construction of a further primary school
within the Port Area providing reasonable accommodation For the instruction of
not less than four hundred (400) children,
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then
the Port Authority will thereupon construct or procure the construction of such
schools in accordance with the following provisions namely:
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(A)
Each
school required to be within the Port Area shall be on a site to be mutually
agreed between the Minister for Education and the Port Authority and to be of
such area and situation as reasonably to provide for the future expansion of
the school with all amenities usually provided by the Government for a primary
school including playing-fields (for use jointly by all schools in the Port
Area);
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(B)
Each
school required to be otherwise than within the Port Area shall be on a site to
be provided by the Minister for Education; and
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(C)
The
construction of the school or schools referred to in the First Notice shall be
completed within Eighteen (18) months from the receipt by the Port Authority of
the First Notice and the school referred to in the Second Notice shall be
constructed and completed with due diligence after the receipt by the Port
Authority of the Second Notice and (in the case of every school) in accordance
with plans to be approved by the Minister for Education (such approval not to
be unreasonably withheld) and in accordance with standards at least equal to
those of the Four (4) secondary schools at the date of these presents under
construction for the Minister of Education in the Island of New Providence.
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And
upon completion of any such school as aforesaid within the Port Area the Port
Authority will lease or procure to be leased the same and the sites thereof to
the Government upon the terms and conditions specified in the said paragraph
(c) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of the Principal Agreement as substituted by
clause 6 hereof.
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(4)
The
Port Authority will forthwith commence and with due diligence complete the
construction of a further primary school providing reasonable accommodation for
the instruction of not less than Two hundred (200) children in an area in the
Island of Grand Bahama between the Settlement of Holmes Rock on the West and
the Western bank of Hawksbill Creek on the East on a site to be provided by the
Minister for Education such school to be built in accordance with the same standards
as are referred to in subclause (3) of this clause Provided that if either (a)
the Government shall after the First day of June, A.D., 1965 have itself
commenced to construct a school within such area as aforesaid providing
accommodation for the instruction of not less than Two hundred (200) children
or (b) the Government shall after the date of these presents decide itself to
construct such a school and shall notify the Port Authority in writing of such
decision then (i) the obligation of the Port Authority under this present
subclause to construct a school shall thereupon cease and (ii) upon the
completion of such a school by the Government the Port Authority will pay to
the Government as a contribution towards the cost thereof a sum equal to whichever
is the smaller of (A) the sum of Seventeen thousand pounds (£17,000) and (B) a
fraction of the cost of constructing the last mentioned school the numerator of
which is Two hundred (200) and the denominator of which is the number of
children for the instruction of which such school was designed.
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2.
The Port Authority hereby further covenant with the Government that:
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(1)
The
Port Authority will provide and lease to the Government (upon the terms and
conditions specified in the said paragraph (c) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of
the Principal Agreement as substituted by clause 6 hereof) a site in Freeport
of such area (not exceeding Ten (10) acres) as the Government shall require
(hereinafter called "the Medical Purposes Site") for the erection
thereon by the Government of a medical clinic and a doctor's residence and
other purposes connected with the provision of medical facilities within the
Port Area.
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(2)
Upon
the completion of the construction of the said clinic and doctor's residence on
the Medical Purposes Site within Five (5) years after the date hereof the Port
Authority will pay to the Government a sum equal to the costs of such
construction up to (but not exceeding) the sum of Twenty thousand pounds
(£20,000).
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(3)
If
the Government shall within Five (5) years after the date hereof construct and
complete at the Eight Mile Rock Settlement in the said Island of Grand Bahama a
clinic and doctor's residence the Port Authority will pay to the Government a
sum equal to the costs of such construction up to but not exceeding the sum of
Twenty thousand pounds (£20,000).
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(4)
The
Port Authority will procure the laying of an Eight (8) inch water main from the
existing water supply system in the Port Area to the point marked "A"
on the plan hereto annexed and will procure the provision through such main of
such water as is required by the said Eight Mile Rock Settlement up to but not
exceeding a quantity of One hundred thousand (100,000) gallons of water per day
AND subject always (i) to the availability of supplies of potable ground water
within the Port Area (ii) to meeting the requirements of water consumers within
the Port Area and (iii) to adequate advance notice being given by the
Government to the Port Authority from time to time so as to enable the Port
Authority to provide the facilities necessary for the production of such
increased amount of water as may be specified in such notice the Port Authority
will use their best endeavours to provide such further amounts of potable water
as may be required by the said Settlement all water supplied under the
provisions of this subclause to be charged for at the price of Six shillings
(6/-) per One thousand (1,000) gallons Provided that such price may from time
to time be increased in such manner that the price at any given time shall bear
the same relation to Six Shillings (6/-) per One thousand (1,000) gallons as
the cost and expenses of producing water and passing it through the said main
to the said point "A" at such given time bears to the same costs and
expenses at the date when the said main is laid and commences to be used such
respective costs and expenses to be ascertained and conclusively certified by
Messrs. Price Waterhouse & Co. of Trade Winds Building in the City of
Nassau or some other reputable firm of Chartered Accountants nominated by the
Port Authority and approved by the Government (such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld).
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(5)
The
Port Authority will procure the provision of a supply of water (not in excess
of Twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day) from the existing water
supply system in the Port Area to the point marked "B" on the said
plan hereto annexed for the purposes of supplying the area comprising the
Settlements in the said Island of Grand Bahama known as Pinder's Point Lewis
Yard and Hunters at the same price (and liable to be increased in the same
manner) as is specified in the last preceding subclause hereof.
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(6)
The
Port Authority will pay to the Government the sum of Ten thousand pounds
(£10,000) towards the costs of any town planning work carried out by the
Government in the said area in the Island of Grand Bahama between the
Settlement of Holmes Rock on the West and the Western bank of Hawksbill Creek
on the East.
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(7)
The
Port Authority will not without the previous written consent of the Government
either (a) release Colonial Research Institute (a company also incorporated
under the laws of the said Bahama Islands) from any of its obligations under an
Agreement dated the First day of October, A.D., 1962 and made between the Port
Authority of the one part and the said Colonial Research Institute of the other
part now of record in the said Registry of Records in Volume 878 at pages 436
to 454 inclusive or (b) revoke or terminate the Lease granted to the said Colonial
Research Institute pursuant to the provisions of the said Agreement.
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3.
The Port Authority hereby further covenant with the Government that-
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(1)
The
Port Authority will continue to promulgate a comprehensive and detailed
Building Code applicable to the Port Area and will revise the same from time to
time in the light of technical developments and the changing needs of the
community.
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(2)
Such
Building Code shall contain regulations for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining proper and appropriate standards of building constructions and
layouts in the Port Area and for the prior submission and approval of plans and
specifications for such constructions, and shall make appropriate provisions
for the disposal of sewage until such time as a general sewage disposal system
is available in any area, for the proper siting and use of wells and water
supply and distribution systems for the purpose (inter alia ) of
preventing contamination of water supplies, and for such other matters as the
Port Authority reasonably consider necessary or desirable to ensure the general
welfare of the community.
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(3)
The
Port Authority will continue or cause to be continued the operation in the Port
Area of garbage collection and disposal facilities.
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(4)
The
Port Authority will keep all drainage ditches at the date hereof or hereafter
provided by them in any part of the Port Area in a proper condition and state
of repair as long as the same are currently in use.
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(5)
The
Port Authority will procure that all water supply systems in the Port Area
directly or indirectly under their control are from time to time inspected and
are safeguarded against contamination.
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(6)
The
Port Authority will at all times take such steps as they in the reasonable
exercise of their discretion consider expedient and practical to expand and
extend water supply systems in the Port Area directly or indirectly under their
control and to encourage and assist (by making available easements, wayleaves
and other like facilities) the provision and distribution in the Port Area of
adequate supplies of electricity.
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(7)
The
Port Authority will co-operate with the Government for the purposes of pest
control and elimination by providing such means of access within the Port Area
as are reasonably available and making such provisions in the said Building
Code as may from time to time be mutually agreed by the Government and the Port
Authority for such purposes Provided Always (and it is hereby agreed) that the
Port Authority and any utility company or corporation shall be entitled to make
charges in connection with the supply and distribution of water and electricity
sewage disposal systems and garbage collection and disposal facilities.
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4.
Paragraph (a) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of the Principal Agreement as
amended by subclause (3) of clause 2 of the Supplemental Agreement is hereby
revoked provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of
the Port Authority and any corporation institution or body for the time being
authorised by them during the continuance of the Principal Agreement to provide
educational instruction and facilities (primary or otherwise) within the Port
Area as they deem fit and to charge and collect from individuals who or whose
children receive any such educational instruction or facilities reasonable fees
in respect thereof.
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5.
Paragraph (b) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of the Principal Agreement as
amended by subclause (4) of clause 2 of the Supplemental Agreement is hereby
revoked provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of
the Port Authority or any corporation institution or other body for the time
being authorised by them during the continuance of the Principal Agreement to
provide operate and maintain such medical services and facilities within the
Port Area as they deem fit and to charge and collect from individuals who or
whose children receive any such medical services and facilities as aforesaid
reasonable fees in respect thereof.
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6.
Paragraph (c) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of the Principal Agreement is hereby
revoked and the following is substituted therefor:
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"(c) Provide
and lease to the Government or procure to be so provided and leased any area of
vacant land (as that term is hereinafter defined) within the Port Area which
the Government may need within the Port Area for government purposes (as that
term is hereinafter defined) subject to the area of any parcel of such land and
its location being in all the circumstances reasonably related to the needs of
the Government. The terms and conditions of any such lease granted under this
paragraph of this subclause shall be mutually agreed between the Government and
the Port Authority save that unless the parties otherwise agree every such
lease shall provide and be subject to the following terms and conditions that
is to say:
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(i)
the
premises shall be occupied and used solely for government purposes;
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(ii)
in
the event of the Government failing for a continuous period of Twelve (12)
months during the currency of the lease to occupy and use the premises solely
for government purposes the lease shall thereupon be determined;
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(iii)
the
lease shall be for a term of Nine hundred and ninety-nine (999) years at a
yearly rental of One shilling (1/-);
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(iv)
during
the continuance of the Principal Agreement the Government shall maintain the
demised land in a clean and sanitary condition and any buildings erected
thereon in a state of good repair;
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(v)
after
the determination of the Principal Agreement the Government shall be under no
obligation to maintain in a state of good repair any buildings on the demised
land or to surrender them at the determination of the lease in a state of good
repair or at all".
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For the purposes of this paragraph of this subclause-
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(A)
"vacant
land" means land within the Port Area which has no buildings or other
structures erected upon it and which is vested in fee simple in the Port
Authority or their Licensees known as The Grand Bahama Development Company
Limited (a company also incorporated in the Colony) being land in which no
other person has any right title or interest and which is not subject to any
restrictive covenant as would prevent the Government from utilising such land
for the government purpose intended;
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(B)
"government
purposes" means any function of government carried out within the Port
Area to discharge any of the responsibilities of Government in relation to the
Port Area for the maintenance of law and order, the administration of justice
and the collection of revenue the provision of housing accommodation for
Government officers or the carrying on of the work of any Ministry or
Department of Government.
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7.
Subclause (6) of clause 1 of the Principal Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting the words "pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (c) of
subclause (5) of this clause".
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8.
Paragraph (a) of subclause (5) of clause 2 of the Principal Agreement is hereby
amended by deleting therefrom the words:
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"Provided
Always that sales of any articles or things for export outside of the
Colony"
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and substituting therefor the words:
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"Provided
Always that any articles or things sold or agreed to be sold for export outside
of the Colony (other than articles or things sold or agreed to be sold as the
result of the display within the Port Area of such or identical articles or
things or replicas thereof in the operation of a retail business".
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9.
Subclause (28) of clause 2 of the Principal Agreement is hereby amended by adding
immediately at the end thereof the following proviso:
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"Provided
Always that nothing in the foregoing provisions of this subclause shall prevent
the enactment making or promulgation of any legislation order or regulation
imposing any duty or tax on the import into any other part of the Colony of any
articles or things manufactured processed assembled or produced in the Port
Area except pine lumber or products consisting of or made out of pine lumber or
pine timber processed or manufactured within the Port Area out of pine timber
grown on the said Island of Grand Bahama."
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10.
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Principal Agreement or clause 3 of
the Supplemental Agreement no Licensee (as that expression is used in the
Principal Agreement) undertaking after the date of these presents the
construction or operation within the Port Area of an hotel (meaning thereby an
building containing bedrooms for letting for short-term occupation by visitors
to the Port Area) shall be entitled to any greater benefits in the way of
refund for or freedom or exemption from Customs Duties Real Property Taxes or
any other taxes or direct taxation in respect of the construction or operation
thereof than would have been obtained had such hotel been a New Hotel within
the meaning and for the purposes of clause 3 of the Supplemental Agreement.
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11.
The Port Authority hereby covenant with the Government that within Six (6)
months of the execution of these presents they will execute leases demising to
the Treasurer for and on behalf of the Government the several premises within
the Port Area more particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto. The
terms and conditions of such leases shall be mutually agreed between the
Government and the Port Authority save that unless the parties otherwise agree
such leases shall provide and be subject to the following terms and conditions
that is to say:
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(a)
the
premises shall be occupied and used solely for government purposes;
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(b)
that
in the event of the Government failing for a continuous period of Twelve (12)
months during the currency of the lease to occupy and use the premises solely
for government purposes the lease shall thereupon be determined;
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(c)
the
lease shall be for a term of Nine hundred and Ninety-nine (999) years;
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(d)
during
the period of Twenty-five (25) years after the commencement of the said term
the Government shall pay the yearly rental specified in column 3 of the Second
Schedule hereto (being Six per centum (6%) of the depreciated cost of the
premises as shown in column 2 of the Second Schedule hereto) and thereafter a
yearly rental of One shilling (1/-);
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(e)
during
the continuance of the Principal Agreement the Government shall maintain the
land in a clean and sanitary condition and any building thereon in a state of
good repair (fair wear and tear expected);
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(f)
after
the determination of the Principal Agreement the Government shall be under no
obligation to maintain in a state of good repair any buildings on the land or
to surrender them at the determination of the lease in a state of good repair
or at all.
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In this clause the expression "government purposes"
shall have the same meaning as in paragraph (c) of subclause (5) of clause 1 of
the Principal Agreement as substituted by clause 6 hereof.
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12. It is hereby mutually agreed that subclause (2) of clause 2 of the Principal
Agreement shall henceforth operate and have effect as if the words "or
such other Code of Electrical Standards as may from time to time be mutually
agreed between the Government and the Port Authority," were inserted at
the end thereof.
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13. Having regard to the considerable increase in the industrial and other
development of the Port Area and to the nature and extent of certain of the
responsibilities imposed by the Principal Agreement (as heretofore amended)
upon the Port Authority that is to say inter alia for the proper
operation of the deep water harbour at Freeport (under clause 1(2) of the
Principal Agreement) for the laying-out of the development of the Port Area and
the administration and control thereof (under clause 1(4) of the Principal
Agreement) for the safe operation of all utility undertakings constructed by
them or their Licensees (under clause 1(7) of the Principal Agreement) for the
safe construction and the proper maintenance of all buildings and machinery
installed in buildings within the Port Area so as to provide for the health and
safety of employees and the general public and for the installation and
maintenance of good public sanitation within the Port Area (under clause 1(10)
of the Principal Agreement) and having regard to the need in the public
interest to ensure that the Port Authority have the powers necessary to enable
them to discharge effectively such and other responsibilities more particularly
described in the Principal Agreement and the Supplemental Agreement and this
Agreement the Government hereby undertakes to consider sympathetically any
application by the Port Authority for the promotion of legislation to permit
the Port Authority to make bye-laws subject to the approval of the appropriate
Minister for the purpose of enabling the Port Authority to discharge the said
responsibilities and to authorise the Port Authority or any duly authorised
Licensee to collect or recover from owners or occupiers of premises reasonable
fees or charges for services provided or rendered by the Port Authority or such
Licensee in the discharge of the said responsibilities.
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14. It is hereby mutually agreed that any reference contained in the Principal
Agreement or the Supplemental Agreement to "The Governor in Council",
or an "Order in Council", or "the Colonial Secretary" shall
hereafter be read and construed as a reference to "the Governor", an
"Order by the Governor" or "the Secretary to the Cabinet",
as the case may be.
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THE FIRST SCHEDULE
HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO
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Names and Addresses or Registered
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Offices of Existing Licensees.
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THE SECOND SCHEDULE
HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO
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