Cap. 573 Art. 45Effects of the Declaration.

(1) The authority shall have the right to enter the land and take possession thereof if no contestation is made to the Declaration as mentioned in article 41.

(2) If a contestation has been made and the Arbitration Board or the Court of Appeal (Superior Jurisdiction) according to the case, dismisses claim for the revocation of such Declaration, the authority shall have the right to take the land into possession within fourteen days from when the decision of the Arbitration Board or the Court of Appeal (Superior Jurisdiction) has become res judicata.

(3) If the land of which possession is so required, is a dwelling house actually occupied as such, the occupier shall not be required to yield up possession thereof before the lapse of fourteen days from the date when alternative accommodation, reasonably sufficient for the persons resident in that dwelling house, has been offered in writing by the authority to the said occupier.

(4) On the lapse of time mentioned in sub-articles (2) or (3) the authority may without any further formality enter upon and take possession of the land or authorize any person to enter upon and take possession of the land and, notwithstanding any restriction imposed on such land by any other law or by any instrument or otherwise, do or authorize any person to do in or upon or in relation to such land any work or other thing whatsoever which any person having an unrestricted interest in the land would be entitled to do by virtue of that interest saving the liability of the authority to re-instate the land or pay compensation for any damage caused if in the cases permitted by this Act the acquisition is not completed.