12Claims for compensation by other persons

12 Claims for compensation by other persons

12 Claims for compensation by other persons

(1) A claim for compensation by a person eligible to claim by virtue of clause 9 (2) shall:

(a) be made in writing in a form provided or approved by the Compensation Board for the purposes of this clause,

(b) contain such information relating to the pecuniary loss claimed to have been sustained, and such particulars of the circumstances of the loss, as is indicated or required by the form so provided or approved,

(c) be accompanied by a document specifying or evidencing the trust, lease, licence, obligation, estate, interest or contract the discharge of which by section 5 of the Coal Acquisition Act 1981 is claimed to have brought about the loss, and

(d) be lodged with the Compensation Board before 30 June 1994.

(2) Notwithstanding subclause (1), the information referred to in subclause (1) (b) and the document referred to in subclause (1) (c) may be provided or lodged after the time by which the claim is required by subclause (1) to be lodged with the Compensation Board but a claim for compensation made under that subclause shall not be entertained by the Board unless that information is provided, and that document is lodged, before the expiration of 6 months after that time or within such further period as the Board may in any particular case allow.

(3) Notwithstanding subclause (1), the Compensation Board may entertain a claim for compensation lodged after 29 June 1994 by a person referred to in that subclause, but only if the claim was lodged with the Compensation Board on or before 7 July 1994 and otherwise complies with this clause.

cll 10–12: Am 13.11.1987; 18.12.1992; 22.7.1994.