Chapter:	276	Title:	MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY (LAND RESUMPTION AND RELATED PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	62 of 2000
Section:	19	Heading:	Claims out of time	Version Date:	01/07/1997

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 62 of 2000 s. 3

(1) Subject to this section, if a claim for an item of loss damage or cost is not served on the Director before the expiration of the period specified in the fourth column of Part I of the First Schedule in respect of that item, the right to claim compensation therefor shall be barred.
(2) The period referred to in subsection (1) may, upon application made to the Lands Tribunal either before or after the expiry of that period, be extended in accordance with this section.
(3) Notice of an application under subsection (2) shall be given to the Director by the applicant.
(4) The Lands Tribunal may extend the period within which a claim must be served upon the Director if it considers that the delay in serving the claim was occasioned by mistake of fact or mistake of any matter of law (other than the relevant provision in the fourth column of Part I of the First Schedule) or by any other reasonable cause or that the Government is not materially prejudiced in the conduct of its case or otherwise by the delay. (Amended 62 of 2000 s. 3)
(5) An extension may be granted by the Lands Tribunal under subsection (4), with or without conditions for such period as it thinks fit but not in any case exceeding 6 years from the time when the right to compensation first arose.