Assessment of Compensation (Land of Alvan Camacho) Act (No. 8 of 1962)

LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA The Assessment Compensation (CAP. 36 1 (Land of Alvan Camacho) CHAPTER 36 THE ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION (LAND O F ALVAN CAMACHO) ACT Arrangement of Sections Section 1. Short title. 2. Assessment of Compensation. 3. Acquisition and Application. SCHEDULE. ASSESSMENT O F COMPENSATION (LAND OF ALVAN CAMACHO) (29th June, 1962.) WHEREAS a certain parcel of land belonging to one Alvan Camacho (now deceased) and situated at Nut Grove in the Parish of Saint John in Antigua and Barbuda was compulsorily acquired by the Government under the provi sions of the Land Acquisition Act 1944, as validated by sec tion 34 of the Land Acquisition Act 1958: AND WHEREAS the Land Acquisition Act, 1944, was repealed by section 33 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1958, without provision being made therein for assessment of com pensation in respect of pending proceedings: AND WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to whether claims relating to the assessment and payment of compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of the said land can of 8/1962. 9/1963. LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 2 CAP. 36) The Assessment Compensation (Land of Camacho) now be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1958. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Assessment of pensation (Land Of Alvan Camacho) Act. Assessment of Compensation. 2. Subject to the provisions of section 3 of this Act, all claims, questions and other matters relating to the assess ment, award or payment of compensation, and to the apportionment of compensation, in respect of the compulsory acquisition by the Government of the land specified in the Schedule to this Act, shall be made and determined as far as is possible in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 1958, and a Board of Assessment for the purpose of assessing compensation in respect of the com pulsory acquisition of the lands described in the said Schedule (a) be appointed and constituted in accordance with the terms of the Land Acquisition Act, 1958; ( b ) have all the powers conferred upon a Board of Assessment duly appointed under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1958. Acquisition 3. (1) The land specified in the Schedule to this Act Application. shall be deemed to have been duly acquired on the th day of October, 1956, under and in accordance with the provi sions of section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1958, and accordingly the declaration to be made by the Clerk of the Executive Council shall be deemed to have been duly made and published in the Gazette and the date of the second publication in the Gazette of the said declaration, and the date upon which the Authorised Officer entered and took posses sion of the said land, shall be deemed to be the lth day of October, (2) The notice of acquisition required to be issued by the Authorised Officer in respect of the said land in accor dance with the provisions of section 7 of the Land Acquisi tion Act, 1958 shall be issued as soon as may be after the date of coming into force of this Act, but the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 7 and the provi sions of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the said Act, shall not apply to the said notice of acquisition. 1. shall and 1956. of Alvan 11 1 Com LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA The Assessment of Compensation (CAP. 36 3 (Land of Alvan Camacho) SCHEDULE All that lot piece or parcel of land containing 3.812 acres English Statute Measure and situated at Nut Grove in the Parish of Saint John in the Island of Antigua and bounded as On the North by land of Alvan F. Camacho, On the South by land of Alvan F. Camacho and one Jarvis, On the West by a public road, and On the East by a public road. follows