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E. Grant Gibbons

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21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order. I think we are very much anticipating a —
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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—future debate.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. As my honourable colleague was around the corner (and I will just leave it at that) while some of the questions were being asked, maybe I can assist here. The Honourable Member from constituency 15, Mr. Roban, asked clause 3(a), but it is [clause 3 (a)](iii)(d), (e) and (b), which is (2A) down here. So let …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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If the Honourable Member will let me finish, then I can— Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: I think the Honourable Member is misleading the House—
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Maybe I was not clear. What I was saying was it is not a new lease, okay? So we are not going out and changing a lease. It is still the existing lease, but there may be modification of certain terms — Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Then you are changing it. So you are changing it.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, exactly. That is the whole point of this paragraph— that the lease may be varied, but only under certain conditions. And the conditions are that it has to be with the prior approval of Cabinet and it cannot change the actual length, the term, of the lease, okay? [Inaudible interjection]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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And so this is to facilitate development. So if the developer comes back and says, I want to do this, to the Minister of Public Works, and it is not to facilitate development, like changing a tennis court from here to there or something of that sort, then Cabinet is not going to agree to it. It is as simple …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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That is the point.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Okay. Let me continue, okay? That is (d) okay? When we get to [clause] 3(a)(iii)](e) it says, “in the event of early termination (as a result of default by the Developer or its successor in title) of a lease granted pursuant to paragraph (b)” —okay that is the 262 year lease —the Property . . . any sublessees . . …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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So that is that. Now, let me go down to the (2A) which is down below. It says, “A variation under subsection (1)(d) of the area demised by a lease shall not, except for the purposes of subsection (2), by operation of law effect a deemed surrender and regrant of such lease.” What we are saying here is that (1)(d) …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Oh, yeah, okay. Yes, it refers to the area of the lease. Yes, so if you change the area then it is not considered to be . . . essentially a surrender of the lease and it does not have to be regranted, basically. Okay?
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, I think the Honourable Member from constituency 5 is confused. We are not talking about a new developer here in the event of default for section (d) here, oka y? What we are talking about is the existing developer. If there are changes, small changes, they can be varied with the approval of Cabinet. So we are not talking …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Let me see if I can help the Honourable Member out here. [Inaudible interjection]
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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I think there is a little bit of a misunderstanding because this obviously refers back as well to the St. George’s Resort Act. And it is very clear in the St. George’s Resort Act that the lease does not have to be brought to the House, okay? It was not brought and approved as a lease. It was approved as …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Again, no.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I am happy to help. It is covered under section 3 of the St. George’s Resort Act where the Minister may convey and lease property to the developer. So it is, in essence, those provisions of a lease being brought to the House are covered in the principal Act itself, okay . So we do …
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, yes.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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Just a point of clar ification, if I may.
21 Nov 2016 House of Assembly
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The Environmental Impact Assessment and that sort of thing are all in the Planning files so they ar e publicly available already . . . the Environmental Impact Assessment. The archaeological or historical report that we talked about with Dr. Harris I think is coming at the end of this month, but that probably will be put in the Planning …