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Public Works Act 1981

Compensation - The award

89: Separate sums to be awarded for items of claim

You could also call this:

“The Tribunal looks at each part of your claim separately and decides how much you get for each”

When you make a claim for compensation, the Land Valuation Tribunal will look at each part of your claim separately. They won’t just give you one big sum of money for everything. Instead, they will decide how much money you should get for each specific item in your claim. They might also add some conditions to the payment if they think it’s fair. If they think you shouldn’t get any money for a particular item, they can decide that too. This helps make sure that each part of your claim is carefully considered on its own.

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Part 5 Compensation
The award

89Separate sums to be awarded for items of claim

  1. The Land Valuation Tribunal may not award a gross sum in respect of 2 or more items of any claim for compensation, but the Tribunal shall in respect of each item of the claim award a particular sum as compensation to be paid to the claimant, subject to such conditions as it may think equitable, or determine that no compensation is payable in respect of it.

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