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LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION (NORTHERN

14.(1) So much of Article 5(1) as requires an interest qualifying for
compensation under this Part to have been acquired by the claimant before the
relevant date shall not apply to any interest acquired by him by inheritance
from a person who acquired that interest, or a greater interest out of which
it is derived, before the relevant date.

(2) For the purposes of this Article an interest is acquired by a person by
inheritance if it devolves on him by virtue only of testamentary dispositions
taking effect on, or the law of intestate succession or the right of
survivorship between joint tenants as applied to, the death of another person
or the successive deaths of two or more other persons.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) a person who acquires an interest by
appropriation of it in or towards satisfaction of any legacy, share in residue
or other share in the estate of a deceased person shall be treated as a person
on whom the interest devolves by direct bequest.

(4) Where an interest is settled land for the purposes of the Settled Land
Acts 1882 to 1890 and on the death of a tenant for life within the meaning of
those Acts a person becomes entitled to the interest in accordance with the
settlement, or by any appropriation by the personal representatives in respect
of the settled land, paragraph (2) shall apply as if the interest had belonged
to the tenant for life absolutely and the trusts of the settlement taking
effect after his death had been trusts of his will.

(5) Paragraph (4) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, where a
person becomes entitled to an interest on the termination of a settlement as
it would apply if he had become entitled in accordance with the terms of the
settlement.

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