2694
No. 18 of 1922.
INDEMNITY.
Tribunal for assessing payment or compensation.
10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 48, s. 2.
injured, on the ascertained value of such injury, and shall be assessed without taking into account any increase of market values of tonnage due to the war.
(3) Any such payment or compensation shall be assessed by the tribunal hereinafter mentioned.
5.-(1) The tribunal for assessing any payment or compensation claimed under this Ordinance shall be appointed by the Governor by notification in the Gazette and shall consist of three members and shall be constituted in the manner following:-
(a) The president of the tribunal shall be such judge as the judges may mutually arrange.
(b) Of the two other members of the tribunal, one shall be nominated by the Governor, and the other by the claimant : Provided that if such claimant fails to nominate a member, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a second member on his behalf.
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall confer on any person a right to payment or compensation unless notice of the claim shall have been given to the Registrar of the Supreme Court within one year from the termination of the war, or the date when the transaction giving rise to the claim took place, whichever may be the later.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make rules of procedure for the tribunals to be constituted under this section, whether any such tribunal shall have been constituted or not: Provided always that, in the absence of any such rules, the procedure to be followed before any such tribunal shall be decided by the president of that tribunal.
(4) Any tribunal when constituted under this section shall have all such powers as are vested in the Supreme Court or in a judge on the occasion of any action in respect of the following matters:-
(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise as it may think fit;
(b) compelling the production of any documents; and (c) punishing persons guilty of contempt.
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2694
No. 18 of 1922.
INDEMNITY.
Tribunal for assessing
payment or compensa- tion.
10 & 11 Geo.
5, c. 48, s. 2.
injured, on the ascertained value of such injury, and shall be assessed without taking into account any increase of market values of tonnage due to the war.
(3) Any such payment or compensation shall be assessed by the tribunal hereinafter mentioned.
5.-(1) The tribunal for assessing any payment or com- pensation claimed under this Ordinance shall be appointed by the Governor by notification in the Gazette and shall consist of three members and shall be constituted in the manner following:-
(a) The president of the tribunal shall be such judge as the judges may mutually arrange.
(b) Of the two other members of the tribunal, one shall be nominated by the Governor, and the other by the claimant : Provided that if such claimant fails to nominate a member, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a second mem- ber on his behalf.
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall confer on any person a right to payment or compensation unless notice of the claim shall have been given to the Registrar of the Supreme Court within one year from the termination of the war, or the date when the transaction giving rise to the claim took place, whichever may be the later.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make rules of procedure for the tribunals to be constituted under this section, whether any such tribunal shall have been constituted or not: Provided always that, in the absence of any such rules, the procedure to be followed before any such tribunal shall be decided by the president of that tribunal.
(4) Any tribunal when constituted under this section shall have all such powers as are vested in the Supreme Court or in a judge on the occasion of any action in respect of the following matters:-
(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise as it may think fit;
(b) compelling the production of any documents; and (c) punishing persons guilty of contempt.
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