3. The following new section is hereby Inserted immediately after section 3, and shall have effect as section 3A, of the principal enactment: -
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| | (1) Notwithstanding anything, in the Crown Lands Ordinance or in any other written law, where the Minister certifies that any State land which is low-lying, marshy, waste or swampy and falls within any Reclamation and Development Area declared by an Order under section 2, Is required to be made available to the Board for the purpose of any reclamation and development project, the Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of State Lands by Order (hereafter in this Act referred to as a " vesting Order ") published in the Gazette, vest such land in the Board, with effect from such date as shall be specified in the Order. | | |
| | (2) A vesting Order shall have the effect of giving the Board absolute title to any land specified therein and free from all encumbrances. | | |
| | (3) The vesting of any State land in the Board shall not be deemed to convey any right to any mineral, mineral product or mineral oil shall, notwithstanding any such vesting , be deemed to remain and shall remain the absolute property of the Republic. | | |
| | (4) Where any State land is to be vested in the Board, the Chairman of the Board may, if there is no plan of that land made by the Surveyor-Generals department, cause a survey and plan of the land to be made by a licensed surveyor approved by the Surveyor General.'. | | |
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