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Exclusion or limitation of compensation in certain other cases
Cap. 182, s. 66 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) No compensation shall be payable under this Part in respect of any property on the ground that it has been injuriously affected by any provision contained in a scheme, if and in so far as the same provision or a provision substantially to the same effect, was, at the date when the scheme came into operation, already in force by virtue of any other Act.
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(2) A person shall not be entitled to recover compensation under this Part in respect of any action taken under section 56 except in a case where a building which the Central Authority has removed, pulled down or altered, was an existing building at the material date.
(3) Where any provision contained in a scheme could immediately before the date on which the scheme came into operation have been validly included in a scheme by virtue of any other Act, then,
(a) if no compensation would have been payable in respect of injury caused by the coming into operation of that provision in that other scheme, no compensation shall be payable in respect of that provision of the scheme under this Part; and
(b) if compensation would have been payable,
the compensation payable in respect of that provision of the scheme under this Part shall not be greater than the compensation which would have been so payable.
(4) Where any provision of a scheme is revoked or varied by a subsequent scheme, no compensation shall be payable in respect of any property on the ground that it has been injuriously affected by any provision contained in the subsequent scheme if and in so far as that later provision is the same, or substantially the same, as the earlier provision so revoked or varied, but if at the date when the revocation or variation of that earlier provision becomes operative,
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(a) there is still outstanding any claim for compensation duly made thereunder; or
(b) the time originally limited for making such a claim has not expired,
any such outstanding claim and any such claim made within the time so limited shall be entertained and determined, and may be enforced, in the same manner in all respects as if all the provisions of the earlier scheme had continued in operation.
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