Industrial Alcohol Act, 1938

Payment and ascertainment of compensation.

24.—(1) Compensation shall be paid by the Company for land compulsorily acquired by the Company under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of the immediately preceding section to the several persons entitled thereto or having estates or interests therein, and for or in respect of easements, way-leaves, water-rights, fishing rights, and other rights compulsorily acquired under sub-section (1) of the said section to the owner thereof or the several persons entitled to or having estates or interests in the land or water over or in respect of which such rights are so acquired, and for or in respect of rights over or in respect of any land or water compulsorily acquired under sub-section (2) of the said section to the owner thereof or the several persons entitled to or having estates or interests in such land or water, and such compensation shall, in default of agreement, be fixed under and in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 .

(2) All claims for compensation in respect of any land or right compulsorily acquired under the immediately preceding section shall be made within one year after such land is first entered on or such right is first exercised by the Company.

(3) Sections 69 to 83 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 , shall apply to any compensation payable by the Company under this section and to the conveyance to the Company of property, corporeal or incorporeal, compulsorily acquired by it under the immediately preceding section, and for the purpose of such application the Company shall be deemed to be the promoter of the undertaking.

Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Transport Works.