# Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, Section 126: Compensation for damage by council.


(1) A council shall make compensation to any person who has sustained damage, for which compensation is not payable under any other statutory provision, by reason of the exercise by the council of any of its functions in relation to a matter as to which he has not himself been in default.
(2) Subsections (2) to (9) of section 38 of the Mineral Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 1969 c.35 shall have effect for the purposes of any claim for compensation under this section as if, in those subsections, any reference to that section, that Act or the Ministry of Commerce were a reference to, respectively, this section, this Act and the council.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/section/126 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-126
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