Section 20, An Act to amend the Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

(1) Any final judgment of the Court respectingcompensation or in the case of disputed interest or title shall be subject to the like appeal to which other final judgments of any Court are subject, including appeal to the West African Court of Appeal and to Her Majesty’s Privy Council where such appeal is allowed by law. (2) The party who may desire to appeal against such judgment shall proceed according to any Rules of Court or Order in Council for the time being regulating appeals, and if an appeal is not perfected within the period prescribed, the judgment of the Court or Court of Appeal, as the case may be, shall be final. (3) The decision of any Court having competent jurisdiction, whether original or appellate, where appeal has been taken in manner above mentioned, respecting compensation, or on any question of disputed interest or title, shall be final and conclusive in regard to all persons upon whom notices have been served or who have appeared and claimed or on whose behalf any person having authority to that effect has claimed any lands or any interest therein: Provided that persons upon whom notices have not been served, and who have not appeared or claimed or on whose behalf no claim has been made, may do so at any time within one year after the date of the final decision. S.L. – VOL. III–2 Matters to be neglected in determining compensation. Appeals. Notice of Appeal. Postponement of payment of price; parties not notified may appear and claim. 1212 (Cap. 116 Public Lands Public Lands (Cap. 116 1213 When Court’s decision to be final. (4) In all cases where any compensation has been awarded, except where a valid written title to the land shall be delivered, payment thereof shall be postponed until the period of one year shall have elapsed from the date of the judgment, or judgment on appeal, whereupon it may be paid over to the person who shall then appear by the judgment of the Court to have the best right thereto, and such payment shall, as concerns the Colonial Government, operate as a complete discharge and acquainttance of such compensation and of all claims in respect of such lands or any interest therein: Provided that such payment shall not hinder any subsequent proceedings at the instance of any persons having or alleging better right thereof as against the person to whom such payment may have been made. FORM B NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the following land [described land, denoting the boundaries by physical marks wherever practicable] is to be acquired for the service of the Colony. Any person claiming to be possessed of, or to have any right, title or interest in, the said land, or to be injuriously affected by any such acquisition, is required, on or before the day of (twenty-one days after the date of publication of warrant in the Gazette), to forward to the Director of Surveys and Lands a statement of his right or interest, and the evidence thereof, and of any claim made by him in respect of the value of such land or of his interest therein. The Governor is willing to treat for the purchase of the said land, but if no such statement is lodged with the Director of Surveys and Lands before the date hereby prescribed, the land is label to be dealt with as unoccupied land. Dated the ....................................................day of .......................................19...... . . ....................................................... Director of Surveys and Lands ___________ 1214 (Cap. 116 Public Lands Public Lands (Cap. 116 1215 ___________