Oil Taxation Act 1983

7 (1) In any case where—

(a) no claim has been made for any claim period earlier than the transitional claim period for the allowance under section 4 of the principal Act of the existing expenditure or any particular item of it, and

(b) if such a claim had been made before the passing of this Act, the existing expenditure or, as the case may be, that item of it would not have been allowable under that section, and

(c) if paragraphs 2 and 4 above had always been in force and had applied with respect to claim periods earlier than the transitional claim period, the whole or some part of the existing expenditure or, as the case may be, of that item of it would have been allowable on a claim for one of those claim periods,

an appropriate claim may be made for the transitional claim period, notwithstanding that that is not the first relevant claim period, within the meaning of section 4 of the principal Act.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) above an "appropriate claim" means a claim for the allowance under section 4 of the principal Act of so much of the existing expenditure or, as the case may be, of the item of it referred to in that sub-paragraph as would have been allowable at or before the end of the transitional claim period if, in the circumstances referred to in paragraph (c) of that sub-paragraph, a claim had been made for the claim period which, in those circumstances, would have been the first relevant claim period, within the meaning of that section.

(3) This paragraph does not apply in relation to an item of the existing expenditure if, on a claim under paragraph 5 above, account is taken of that item in determining the maximum amount referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a) of that paragraph.