§ Full compensation shall be made, out of money to be provided by Parliament, for any damage that may be caused to any lands within the prescribed limits by or in consequence of the forces, or strangers accompanying the forces, passing over or occupying the lands, and the amount of compensation payable to any person entitled to compensation shall, if disputed, in each case of damage be determined as in this Act mentioned; but no person belonging to the forces shall be liable to any action, indictment, or other legal proceeding in respect of any trespass committed by him upon, or damage done to, land within the prescribed limits.
§ MR. E. H. HULSE (Salisbury)proposed to add after "any lands" the words,—
And for any disturbance of any rights of common, of pasturage, pannage, or turbary, or other rights of common, and for the payment or loss incurred by the owners or licensees on account of the removal or disturbance of their commonable animals during the prescribed period.
§ *MR. BRODRICKexplained that this and other Amendments were covered by Amendments which it was intended that he should move.
§ Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
§ MR. D. LLOYD-GEORGE (Carnarvon Boroughs)proposed an Amendment to protect water supplied by any water company, and to provide compensation where necessary.
§ *MR. BRODRICKsaid this was dealt with in the Interpretation Clause.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEIt is not a question of damming up streams.
§ SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derby, Ilkeston)supported the Amendment.
§ Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
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*MR. BRODRICK moved to insert at the end of the clause:—
The compensation may include such compensation, if any, as the compensation officer or Court of Arbitration, as the case may be, shall award to any County Council, District Council, or other road authority for damage by reason of excessive weight or extraordinary traffic caused
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by the passage of the forces or munitions of war to any highway for the repair of which that authority is responsible.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 5,—