Mineral Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1969

42 Satisfaction of claims. N.I.

(1) Without prejudice to any award of the Lands Tribunal, where compensation under section 29 or 35, or the percentage mentioned in section 37, is payable to any person otherwise than by way of a lump sum, the Ministry may make payments to that person in respect of the compensation or percentage at such times or intervals as are reasonable having regard to the size and nature of the payments concerned.

(2) The provisions of paragraphs 12 and 14 to 17 of Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to the satisfaction of claims for such compensation or percentage as they have effect with respect to the satisfaction of claims for compensation which is payable under that Schedule with—

(a) the substitution for any reference to the last-mentioned compensation of a reference to such compensation or, as the case requires, such percentage as aforesaid;

(b) the substitution for any reference to the compensation fund of a reference to the Ministry;

(c) in paragraph 16, the substitution for the reference to the date of the vesting of the land or ancillary rights of a reference to—

(i) in the case of compensation payable under section 29, the date of the expiration of one month after the date of the receipt by the Ministry of the purchase money, fine, rent, royalties or other sum giving rise to the profits out of which the compensation is payable, or

(ii) in the case of compensation payable under section 35, the date of the commencement of section 1, or

(iii) in the case of the said percentage, the date of the expiration of one month after the date of the receipt by the Ministry of the rent, purchase money or other net profit out of which that percentage is payable;

and the omission of the words from “or where the compensation is payable by instalments” to “the instalment falls due” .