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Waterworks Clauses Act 1952
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(1) Except where otherwise provided for by agreement, the undertakers shall 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 expenses 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 interruption of the continuous working of such mines or minerals under section sixty-five , or by reason of their being worked under the restrictions contained in this Act 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.
(2) *[Section 68 Subsection (2) amended by No. 24 of 1993, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*If any dispute or question arises between the undertakers and the owner, lessee, or occupier touching the price of such minerals, the dispute is to be determined in the same manner as a disputed claim for compensation under the Land Acquisition Act 1993 .