Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1869
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Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 18.
An Act to amend the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act.
[24th June 1869]
Whereas it is expedient that the provisions contained in ‘The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,’ should be amended:
Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Costs of arbitrations, where either party so requires, to be settled by a master of Superior Courts.
1. Where in England, under ‘The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,’ or any Act incorporating the same, any question of disputed compensation is determined by arbitration, the costs of and incidental to the arbitration and award shall, if either party so requires, be taxed and settled as between the parties by any one of the taxing masters of the Superior Courts of Law; and such fees may be taken in respect of the taxation as may be fixed in pursuance of the enactments relating to the fees to be demanded and taken in the offices of such masters, and all those enactments, including the enactments relating to the taking of fees by means of stamps, shall extend to the fees in respect of the said taxation.
2 Repeal of 31 & 32 Vict. c. 119. s. 33.
2. Section thirty-three of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868, is hereby repealed, and any proceedings commenced in pursuance of that section may be continued under is Act as if they had been commenced under it.
3 Provision respecting lands in Westminster.
3. Where any lands by the special Act authorized to be taken are situate within the city and liberty of Westminster, then, with respect to those lands, in every case in which any question of disputed compensation is required by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or any Act amending the same, to be determined by the verdict of a jury, the high bailiff of the city and liberty of Westminster, or his deputy, shall be deemed to be substituted for the sheriff throughout such of the enactments of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and any Act amending the same as relate to the reference to a jury.
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