Bee Pest Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908

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Compensation.

6.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, compensation may be paid to the owner of any bees, articles, or appliances destroyed under this Act, if the Department, with the consent of the local authority of the district within which the bees, articles or appliances were kept, so directs, and the compensation shall be payable by such local authority accordingly.

(2) The amount of the compensation shall be determined in accordance with a scale to be prescribed by the Department, and shall in no case exceed one half of the value of the bees, articles and appliances immediately before their destruction.

(3) The consent of the local authority shall be signified by a resolution of the authority consenting generally to the payment of compensation, in accordance with the provisions of this section, in every case to which the section applies.