Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1989 No. 15 of 1989 - SECT 69

69. (1) Where an amount has been paid to or recovered by the mortgagee under a
mortgage in respect of a liability that, upon the making of a claim by the
mortgagee, is, by section 68, taken to have been discharged as from the time
of acquisition of a mortgage interest under the mortgage:

   (a)  the mortgagee is liable to repay that amount to the person who paid
        it; and

   (b)  the Commonwealth may deduct from the compensation payable to the
        mortgagee and pay to the person who paid that amount so much of that
        amount as has not been so repaid.

(2) A payment made by the Commonwealth under paragraph (1) (b) shall be deemed
to have been made in discharge of the obligation of the mortgagee under
paragraph (1) (a).