Damage To Property (Compensation) (Amendment) Act, 1926

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Payment of ten per cent. addition to compensation.

2.—(1) The Minister for Finance shall pay, in the manner provided by this Act and in such one or more instalments as he thinks fit, to every person entitled within the meaning of this section to compensation under a decree made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under the Criminal Injuries Acts in respect of an injury to which Part II. of the Principal Act applies, a sum equal to one-tenth of the amount of such compensation.

(2) The said sum to be paid under the foregoing sub-section shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the compensation, costs, and any other moneys payable under the decree.

(3) For the purposes of this section the person entitled to compensation shall be the person to whom the compensation was made payable by the decree or his personal representative save and except that, where that person had before the date of the decree assigned the whole benefit of the decree to another person, such other person or his personal representative shall be the person entitled to compensation for the purposes of this section.