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Undertakers to make compensation to owner, lessee, or occupier of mines for expences incurred by severance of mines, or by interruptions of or restrictions on works, and for minerals not obtained.
Disputes to be settled by arbitration.
8 & 9 Vict. cc. 18, 19.
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25. Except where otherwise provided for by agreement, the undertakers shall from time to time pay to the owner, lessee, or occupier of any mines of coal, ironstone, and other minerals extending so as to lie on both sides of any reservoirs, buildings, pipes, conduits, or other works, all such additional expences and losses as shall be incurred by such owner, lessee, or occupier by reason of the severance of the lands over such mines or minerals by such reservoirs or other works, or of the continuous working of such mines or minerals being interrupted as aforesaid, or by reason of the same being worked under the restrictions contained in this or the special Act, and for any mines or minerals not purchased by the undertakers which cannot be obtained by reason of making and maintaining the said works, or by reason of such apprehended injury from the working thereof as aforesaid; and if any dispute or question shall arise between the undertakers and such owner, lessee, or occupier as aforesaid touching the price of such materials, the same shall be settled by arbitration in such manner as is provided by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, if the undertaking shall be situate in England or Ireland, and by the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, if the undertaking shall be situate in Scotland.
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