Petroleum (Production) Act (Northern Ireland) 1964

F111APayments under section 11.N.I.

(1)Where it appears to the Ministry that payments may be due to any person in respect of the proportion mentioned in section 11(1), the Ministry shall, in notices published as mentioned in section 7(1), indicate that any person who claims to be entitled to the whole or any part of that proportion may submit his claim therefor to the Ministry.

(2)Subject to subsections (4) and (5), where notices containing any such indication are published, no claim for any part of the said proportion shall be entertained unless it is made not later than twelve months after the date on which the notices were published or, if published on different dates, the date of the first publication.

(3)On the expiration of the period mentioned in subsection (2) or (if all relevant claims appear to the Ministry to have been made) of such lesser period as appears to the Ministry to be appropriate, the Ministry shall proceed to consider the claims made as mentioned in that subsection.

(4)Where the Ministry is satisfied that good reasons exist for the failure of any person to submit a claim for the said proportion before the expiration of the period mentioned in subsection (2), his claim may be accepted after the expiration of that period.

(5)Any question arising as to—

(a)the entitlement of any person to the said proportion, or

(b)the amount payable by way of that proportion, or

(c)the existence of good reasons such as are mentioned in subsection (4), where the Ministry has not accepted a late claim,

shall, in default of agreement, be referred to and determined by the Tribunal.]