Coal Act 1938

9 (1) In order for compensation to be payable under section six of this Act in respect of a holding, a notice of claim for compensation to be paid in respect thereof must be served on the Commission within the period of six months beginning on the valuation date.

(2) A notice of claim for compensation must be in the prescribed form and must be served by a person who has an acquired interest that constitutes or is comprised in the holding :

Provided that, in the case of a holding belonging to an ecclasiastical corporation to which the Ecclesiastical Leasing Acts apply, a notice must be served by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and in any other case the Commission may receive a notice served by a person who has not such an interest as aforesaid if they are satisfied that, by reason of that person being concerned in the administration of the holding or on other grounds appearing to the Commission to he sufficient, it is convenient that the notice should be served by him.

(3) A notice of claim for compensation for a holding in respect of which an application for the registration of particulars has been made before the valuation date must, if the person by whom the notice is served (in this Schedule referred to as " the claimant ") is aware of any error or omission in such particulars relating to the registration as are mentioned in paragraph 8 of this Schedule, be accompanied by such a notice as is therein mentioned given by him, and must in any event include a statement, verified in such manner by statutory declaration or otherwise as the Commission may reasonably require, to the effect that the claimant has examined the said particulars and has made such investigation of the circumstances of the holding as is reasonably requisite for discovering any error or omission therein and is not aware of any matter, or of any other matter, as the case may be, in respect of which such a notice may be given:

Provided that, in the application of this sub-paragraph to a matter with respect to which the Commission or the Board of Trade have given such an indication as to the information material in their opinion for valuation purposes as is mentioned in section thirty-six of this Act, the omission from the particulars of matter outside the scope of the indication given may be disregarded.

(4) A notice of claim for compensation must be accompanied by a statement in the prescribed form, and verified as aforesaid, of all the circumstances of the holding relevant to the ascertainment of the person entitled to the compensation for the holding and known to the claimant at the time when the notice is served, and the claimant shall, on being requested by the Commission so to do, give to them such further information as to the circumstances relevant to the ascertainment of that person as the Commission may reasonably require.