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Short title, commencement and interpretation.
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12.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, and shall come into operation on the first day of September nineteen hundred and nineteen, but shall not apply to the determination of any question where before that date the appointment of an arbitration, valuation, or other tribunal to determine the question has been completed, or a jury has been empanelled for the purpose.
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(2) For the purposes of this Act, the expression “land” includes water and any interests in land or water and any easement or right in, to, or over land or water, and “public authority” means any body of persons, not trading for profit, authorised by or under any Act to carry on a railway, canal, dock, water or other public undertaking.
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