Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

Payment and ascertainment of compensation for land acquired by local authorities.

18.—(1) Compensation shall be paid by a local authority for land compulsorily acquired by it under the immediately preceding section to the several persons entitled thereto or having estates or interests therein, and for or in respect of easements and other rights compulsorily acquired under 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 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 local authority acquiring it.

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