Defence Act 1860

XX Provision for Payment and Application of Compensation Money in certain Cases.

Any Compensation payable under this Act, for or in respect of any Lands, or any Interest therein, taken from or holden by any Owner who by reason of Absence is prevented from treating as aforesaid, or who cannot after diligent Inquiry be found, or who refuses to accept such Compensation, or neglects or fails to make out a Title to such Lands or the Interest therein claimed by such Owner to the Satisfaction of the said Secretary of State ;

And any Compensation payable for or in respect of any Lands or any Interest therein taken from or holden by any Corporation or Person not having, independently of this Act and The Defence Act, 1842, as amended as aforesaid, Power to agree as to the Amount of such Compensation, or to sell and convey such Lands or such Interest,

Shall be paid and applied in manner directed by the Sections numbered Twenty-five to Thirty of The Defence Act, 1842 (and with regard to England),as amended by Section Eight of the Act of the Session holden in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Twenty-one, as if the said Sections expressly extended to the said Compensation.