Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992

32 Recovery of loss and damages

(1) Where an education authority has, in relation to any college of further education, done or permitted anything to be done in contravention of anything in sections 28 to 30 of this Act, the board of management of the college shall be entitled to recover from the education authority the amount of any loss or damage, as determined in accordance with this section, incurred by the board in consequence of—

(a) the doing of that thing; and

(b) any action taken by the board in pursuance of section 31 of this Act,

and the board of management may raise proceedings for the recovery of the amount of such loss or damage.

(2) The loss or damage referred to in subsection (1) above includes—

(a) where any land is compulsorily acquired in pursuance of subsection (2) of the said section 31, the amount of compensation paid in respect of such compulsory acquisition;

(b) in the case of any land which is not so acquired, the amount of the value of the land assessed as at the first transfer date;

(c) in the case of an agreement, contract or unilateral obligation which has been repudiated in pursuance of subsection (3) of the said section 31, the amount of any loss suffered by the board of management in consequence of the repudiation;

(d) in the case of an agreement, contract or unilateral obligation which has not been so repudiated, the amount of any loss sustained by the board of management in consequence of the implementation of the contract;

(e) in any case, any other loss or any expenses incurred by the board of management in consequence of the disposal or removal of property or an agreement, contract or unilateral obligation having been made or entered into,

together with interest on such amount or expenses from, in the case of loss or damage referred to in paragraph (b) above, the first transfer date and in any other case, such date after that date when the loss or damage occurred.