Damage To Property (Compensation) Act, 1923

Repeals.

22.—(1) The Acts specified in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

(2) The repeal of section 3 of the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Act, 1920, effected by this section shall be retrospective to the extent that every order of certiorari and every order for attachment made under that section before the passing of this Act shall be, and be deemed always to have been, void and of no effect, and any money paid under or in pursuance of any such order shall be repaid by the person who obtained such order to the Council to which such money would have been payable but for such order, so soon as the compensation awarded by the decree on which such order was founded or any grant in lieu of such compensation is payable to such person by the Minister for Finance.

(3) The repeal of section 4 of the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Act, 1920, effected by this section shall be retrospective to the extent that so much as is at the passing of this Act unpaid of the amount recovered (excluding therefrom any sums recovered for costs or expenses) under any decree made against a County Council after the 23rd day of December, 1920, and before the passing of this Act shall not carry any interest but such repeal shall be without prejudice to and shall not give any right of repayment in respect of any interest actually paid under the said section before the passing of this Act.

(4) This section shall not prevent the presentation or prosecution of a claim to or before any Commission of Inquiry in respect of an injury to which the Acts hereby repealed apply.