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Compensation.
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5.—(1) Any person who suffers damage by reason of any interference, caused by the execution of works pursuant to this Act or an order or agreement made thereunder, with any land owned or occupied by him or any easement, profit-a-prendre or other right belonging to him shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be entitled to be paid compensation in respect of such damage by the local authority who executed the works or, if that local authority executed the works on behalf of another local authority pursuant to an agreement made under this Act, by such other local authority.
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(2) Every claim for compensation made under this section shall be made in writing to the local authority concerned before the expiration of the period beginning on the commencement of the works which caused the interference to which the claim relates and ending either two years thereafter or one year after the completion of such works (whichever is the later).
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(3) In default of agreement, the amount of any compensation payable by a local authority under this section shall, if the amount claimed in respect thereof does not exceed twenty pounds, be determined by the District Court or, in any other case, be determined by arbitration under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (as amended by subsequent enactments) as if the compensation were the price of land compulsorily acquired and the court or the arbitrator, as the case may be, shall have jurisdiction to determine whether compensation is, in the circumstances, payable at all.
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(4) In determining compensation under this section, regard shall be had to any protection or benefit enuring to the claimant by reason of the execution of the works to which the claim relates.
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(5) A justice of the District Court when making an order under this section may at his discretion order the costs, to an amount not exceeding three guineas, incurred in relation to the proceedings by any party thereto (together with such witnesses' expenses as the justice considers reasonable) to be paid by any other party thereto.
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(6) Where, in the case of an application to the District Court to determine the compensation to be paid under this section by a local authority, the compensation determined by the Court does not exceed that offered unconditionally by the local authority before the application was made, the Court may order that such costs and witnesses' expenses of the local authority as the Court considers reasonable shall be deducted from the compensation determined by the Court.
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(7) The jurisdiction conferred by this section on the District Court shall be exercised, at the election of the claimant, by the justice within whose district the works or any part thereof were executed or by the justice within whose district the interference or any part thereof occurred.
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