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Section 25: Amount payable for damage, loss or injury.

The Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978Central Act · Act 33 of 1978

(1) Where the metro railway administration exercises any power conferred on it by or under this Act and in consequence thereof any damage, loss or injury is sustained by any person interested in any land, building, street, road or passage, the metro railway administration shall be liable to pay to such person for such damage, loss or injury such amount as may be determined by the competent authority.

(2) If the amount determined by the competent authority under sub-section (1) is not acceptable to either of the parties, the amount payable shall, [on an appeal preferred by either of the parties, within sixty days from the date of the order of the competent authority, to the appellate authority, be determined by an order of the appellate authority].

(3) The competent authority or the [appellate authority] while determining the amount under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, shall have due regard to the damage, loss or injury sustained by any person interested in the land, building, street, road or passage by reason of--

(i) the removal of trees or standing crops, if any;

(ii) the temporary severance of the land, building, street, road or passage;

(iii) any injury to any other property whether movable or immovable.

[(4) The procedure and the manner of deposit and payment of the amount payable for acquiring any land, building, street, road or passage or any right of user in or any right in the nature of easement on any land, building, street, road or passage shall be followed in the case of the procedure and the manner of deposit and payment of the amount determined by the competent authority or the appellate authority under this section.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978
Section25
Marginal noteAmount payable for damage, loss or injury.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 41 of 1982. . Subs. by Act 41 of 1982, s. 14, for certain words (w.e.f. 15-5-1983).
  • substituted. . Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for "arbitrator" (w.e.f. 15-5-1983).
  • inserted, Act 41 of 1982. . Ins. by Act 41 of 1982, s. 14 (w.e.f. 15-5-1983).

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