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PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 11A

Payments under section 11.

11A.(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,

Satisfaction of claims for compensation or for payments under section 11.

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