s.24Terms of award by Court
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Section 24Part 3 — Reference to Court

Terms of award by Court

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Every award under this Part shall be in writing and shall specify the amount awarded under paragraph (a) of section 21 and also the amounts respectively awarded under each of the other paragraphs of the said section, together with the grounds of awarding each of the said amounts.
Every such award shall state the amount of costs incurred in the proceedings under this Part, by what persons and in what proportions they are to be paid.
Where the award of the magistrate is not upheld, the costs shall ordinarily be paid by the Governor, unless the Court is of opinion that the claim of the applicant was so extravagant or that he was so negligent in putting his case before the magistrate that some deduction from his costs should be made or that he should pay a part of the Governor's costs.
If the sum which, in the opinion of the Court, the magistrate ought to have awarded as compensation is in excess of the sum which he did award as compensation, the award of the Court may direct that the Governor shall pay interest on such excess at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date on which he took possession of the land to the date of payment of such excess into Court.

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