Damage To Property (Compensation) (Amendment) Act, 1933
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Time for and notices of applications under this Act. |
3.—(1) Any person may, within three months after the appointed date, apply under this Act for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Acts in respect of any injury to property to which this Act applies or in respect of any injurious act to which this Act applies or in respect of any direct loss or damage to which this Act applies. | |
(2) Every person who applies under this Act for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Acts in respect of any injury to property, an injurious act, or any direct loss or damage to which this Act applies shall serve such notices in such forms and on such persons as shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for Finance under this section. | ||
(3) If, on the hearing of an application under this Act for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Acts, the Judge is not satisfied that the notices prescribed by the regulations made under the next preceding sub-section of this section have been duly served in accordance with those regulations, he shall adjourn the hearing of the application until such notices have been served and he may for that purpose extend the time prescribed by the said regulations for the service of any such notice, and, if such notices are not served within one month after such adjournment, he shall dismiss such application on such terms as to costs as he shall think proper. | ||
(4) The notices to be served under the foregoing provisions of this section are in addition to and not in substitution for the notices required by the Criminal Injuries Acts. | ||
(5) The times appointed by the Criminal Injuries Acts as amended by section 21 of the Principal Act shall, for the purposes of applications under this Act, be and the same are hereby extended to the expiration of three months from the appointed date. | ||
(6) In this section the expression “the appointed date” means the day on which the first rules of Court for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act and for the purposes of this Act come into operation. |