Section 69 †Purchase money payable to parties under disability, amounting to 200l. to be deposited in the Bank.C3C1C2
England, Wales and Northern Ireland
If the purchase money or compensation which shall be payable in respect of any lands, or any interest therein, purchased or taken by the promoters of the undertaking from any corporation, tenant for life or in tail, . . . F1 trustee, executor or administrator, or person having a partial or qualified interest only in such lands, and not entitled to sell or convey the same except under the provisions of this or the special Act, or the compensation to be paid for any permanent damage to any such lands, amount to or exceed the sum of two hundred pounds, the same shall F2be paid into the F3Senior Courts and such monies shall remain so deposited until the same be applied to some one or more of the following purposes; (that is to say,)
In . . . F4discharge of any debt or incumbrance affecting the land in respect of which such money shall have been paid, or affecting other lands settled therewith to the same or the like uses, trusts, or purposes; or
In the purchase of other lands to be conveyed, limited, and settled upon the like uses, trusts, and purposes, and in the same manner, as the lands in respect of which such money shall have been paid stood settled; or
If such money shall be paid in respect of any buildings taken under the authority of this or the special Act, or injured by proximity of the works, in removing or replacing such buildings, or substituting others in their stead, in such manner as the Court of Chancery shall direct; or
In payment to any party becoming absolutely entitled to such money.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words repealed by Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (c. 56), s. 39(4), Sch. 8 Pts. II, III
- F2
Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), S. 17, Sch. 1
- F3
Words in Act (except s. 3) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 9(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
- F4
Words repealed by Finance Act 1963 (c. 25), Sch. 14 Pt. IV
Modifications
- C1
S. 69 excluded by Pipe-lines Act 1962 (c. 58), s. 51(4)
- C2
S. 69 modified by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 5 Pt. II (as amended (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d))
- C3
A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate.