18(1)The local authority, before paying out of the compensation fund to any person any compensation (whether the amount thereof has been settled by agreement or determined by [F1 the Lands Tribunal]) shall obtain from that person a receipt in the prescribed form which shall be prepared by, and executed at the cost of, the local authority, and such receipt shall operate to release the compensation fund from all claims by the person giving it and all parties claiming through or under him.N.I.
(2)The local authority shall pay the costs of furnishing any statement, abstract or other evidence of title required by them to be furnished by any person claiming any interest in the compensation fund.