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LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 71

Claims for compensation.

71.(1) Claims for compensation for any loss arising from any matter specified
in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 9 may be made in accordance with the provisions
of that Schedule.

(2) Where any such claim for compensation is allowed, it shall, subject to
section 70(4), be paid out of the Insurance Fund.

(3) Where any compensation is paid out of the Insurance Fund or defrayed by
the Ministry under section 70(4), the Ministry shall have the same right to
recover the amount so paid from any person who caused, or derived advantage
from, the loss as the person who suffered the loss would have had if the loss
had been an injury to him caused by the first-mentioned person.

(4) Any moneys recoverable by the Ministry under subsection (3)

(a)shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Ministry and may, without
prejudice to the right of the Ministry to sue in the High Court or to any
other remedy for the recovery thereof, and irrespective of the amount thereof,
be recoverable by the Ministry by civil bill in a county court; or

(b)if not so recovered, may be recovered by deduction from any sum payable out
of moneys provided by Parliament by any Ministry of Northern Ireland to the
person from whom the amount is due, and that sum shall be abated accordingly.

Exemption from registration in the registry of deeds.

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