s.11Enquiry and award
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Section 11Part 2 — Acquisition

Enquiry and award

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11. (1) On the day fixed for appearance before the magistrate in accordance with section 9(3), or on any other day to which the enquiry has been adjourned pursuant to subsection (2), the magistrate shall proceed to enquire into the objections, if any, which any person interested has stated pursuant to a notice given under section 9(3), to the measurements made under section 9(1) and into the value of the land and the respective interests of the persons claiming the compensation, and shall make an award under his hand on —
the true area of the land;
the compensation which, in his opinion, should be allowed for land; and
the apportionment of the said compensation among all the persons known or believed to be interested in the land, of whom, or of whose claims, he has information, whether or not they have respectively appeared before him.
The magistrate may, for any cause he thinks fit, from time to time adjourn the enquiry to a day to be fixed by him.

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