Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1961

Amendment of section 18 of the Act of 1945.

8.—Section 18 of the Act of 1945 shall be amended by the deletion of subsection (2) thereof and the insertion of the following subsections:

“(2) The compensation payable under this section to a person for loss of earnings (which word includes, in this and the two next following subsections, the profits aforesaid) derived from fishing in the waters of a river shall be as follows, that is to say, for every complete open fishing season not exceeding thirteen at the most before the interference aforesaid during which the person was engaged or employed or both engaged and employed as aforesaid in fishing in the waters of that river—

(a) in case he shall have suffered total loss of the earnings aforesaid, a sum equal to four times the average weekly earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of that river during the complete open fishing season next before the interference aforesaid,

(b) in case he shall have suffered partial loss of the earnings aforesaid, a sum which bears the same proportion to the sum which he would have received if he had suffered total loss of the earnings aforesaid as the partial loss aforesaid bears to the total earnings aforesaid, and

(c) in case, in any season after the making of a claim by the person for compensation for partial loss of the earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of that river (being, in case he has made more than one such claim, the latest such claim) he suffers loss of the earnings aforesaid which is greater by any amount than the loss to which the claim aforesaid related, a sum which bears the same proportion to the sum which he would have received if he had suffered total loss of the earnings aforesaid as the amount aforesaid bears to the total earnings aforesaid.

(2A) The payment to a person of compensation under this section for total loss of the earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of a river shall extinguish all claims of the person then existing or thereafter arising for compensation under this section for any loss of the earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of that river and the payment to a person of compensation under this section in respect of partial loss of the earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of a river shall extinguish all claims of the person then existing or thereafter arising for compensation under this section for such partial loss of the earnings derived by him from fishing in the waters of that river.

(2B) The total amount of compensation under this section paid to a person for partial loss of earnings derived from fishing in the waters of any one river shall not exceed the amount of compensation under this section to which the person would have been entitled if he had suffered total loss of earnings derived from fishing in the waters of that river.”