Sugar Manufacture Act, 1933

Payment and ascertainment of compensation.

22.—(1) Compensation shall be paid by the Company for land compulsorily acquired (whether permanently or temporarily) 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 (whether permanently or temporarily) 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 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 compulsorily acquired (whether permanently or temporarily) 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, and such compensation shall, in default of agreement, be fixed by an official arbitrator 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 this Part of this Act 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 this Part of this Act, and for the purpose of such application the Company shall be deemed to be the promoter of the undertaking.