Compensation to persons for damage by riot

(1) Where a house, shop or building has been damaged or destroyed, or any property therein has been damaged, stolen or destroyed by any persons riotously assembled together, such compensation as mentioned in section 4 of this Act, shall be paid to any person who has sustained loss by reason of such damage, stealing or destruction. (2) In fixing the amount of such compensation, regard shall be had to the conduct of the person sustaining the loss, whether with respect to the precautions taken by him or his being a party or accessory to such riotous assembly, or any provocation offered to the persons assembled, or otherwise before or during such riotous assembly. (3) Where any person having sustained such loss has received, by way of insurance or otherwise, any sum to recoup him, in whole or in part, for such loss, the compensation 5 otherwise payable to him under this Act shall, if exceeding such sum, be reduced by the amount thereof, and in any other case shall not be paid to him, and the payer of such sum shall be entitled to compensation under this Act in respect of the sum paid in like manner as if he had sustained the loss. (4) Any policy of insurance given by such payer shall continue in force as if he had made no such payment, and where such person was recouped as mentioned in subsection (3) of this section otherwise than by payment of a sum, this enactment shall apply as if the value of such recoupment were a sum paid. (5) The compensation fixed or awarded under this Act in the manner hereinafter provided shall not include compensation for loss of profit or interest.