New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GENERAL POST OFFICE (APPROACHES IMPROVEMENT) ACT 1889 - SECT 3

3 Compensation for resumed lands

The respective owners of the portions of land resumed by this Act, or of any estate or interest therein, or the persons who, but for the provisions hereof, would have been such owners, shall each be entitled to receive compensation for and in respect of the lands so resumed, and the amount of such compensation shall be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of the Lands for Public Purposes Acquisition Acts, being the Acts of the forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen, and forty-fifth Victoria number twenty-six. For the purpose of ascertaining and dealing with such compensation, and for other purposes auxiliary thereto, the enactments hereinafter specified are declared to be incorporated with this Act, viz:

(a) As to conversion of the estates of owners of lands into a claim to compensation,-Section eleven of the Act forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen.

(b) As to notice of claim for compensation and abstract of title,-Section twelve of the Act forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen, and First Schedule thereto, as amended by section three of the Act forty-fifth Victoria number twenty-six.

(c) As to procedure after receipt of notice of claim, and the institution of proceedings in the Supreme Court,-Sections thirteen and fourteen of the Act forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen.

(d) As to the nature of the issue in actions for compensation, verdict and costs, the payment of compensation, the mode of assessing compensation, and the obligation of the party claiming payment to make out a Title,-Section two of the Act forty-fifth Victoria number twenty-six, section sixteen of the Act forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen, and section twenty-four of the “ Public Works Act of 1888 ”.

(e) As to procedure on registration or transfer,-Section twenty-four of the Act forty-fourth Victoria number sixteen.