New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAND ACQUISITION (JUST TERMS COMPENSATION) ACT 1991 - SECT 53

53 Compensation for interest not known to acquiring authority

(1) If an authority of the State pays compensation under this Act to a former owner of land without regard to the existence of an interest in the land owned by another person (being an interest that was not known to the authority when that compensation was paid)--

(a) that other person's entitlement to be paid compensation by the authority in respect of the acquisition of that land is extinguished, and

(b) his or her rights and entitlements against the former owner in respect of the interest are not affected by the divesting, extinguishing or diminution of the interest by this Act.

(2) For the purposes of this section, an interest is known to an authority of the State only if it is a registered interest or an interest within the actual knowledge of the authority.