Section 22 Provision for payment into Court on failure for three months after compensation ascertained to deduce a title.
The said Secretary of State may in any case at or after the expiration of three months from the time at which the compensation for any lands has been agreed upon or otherwise ascertained, if the owner thereof have not in the meantime made out a title thereto to the satisfaction of the said Secretary of State, pay such compensation, without such addition as aforesaid, F1into the F2Senior Courts or Court of Judicature in manner hereinbefore referred to; and such payment shall discharge the said Secretary of State from all liability in respect of the money so paid:
Provided always, that the Court of Chancery may, upon application for payment of such money to the party entitled, in case the Court be of opinion that there was no unreasonable delay in deducing the title, or that a good title was shown, order all or any costs occasioned by such payment into Court to be paid by the said Secretary of State.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), s. 17, Sch. 1
- F2
Words in s. 22 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 11(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)