S.L. 111.1 Art. 21Provisions with respect to applications under this Scheme.

Except where the Committee in any special case otherwise directs, an award under this Scheme in respect of an injury shall not be made unless an application for that award is made in the prescribed manner and within the following period, that is to say -

(a) where the injury is claimed to have incapacitated the injured person for work, a period of three months from the date on which he sustained the injury, or, if he was not incapacitated for work by the injury until after that date on which he was first so incapacitated;

(b) where the injury is claimed to have caused the injured person serious and prolonged disablement a period of three months from whichever is the latest of the following dates, that is to say -

(i) the date on which he sustained the injury;

(ii) in a case where the injury necessitated his immediate treatment as an in-patient in hospital, the date of his discharge from such treatment;

(iii) in a case where the application is made in respect of an injury (not being an injury which may be compensated on the higher scale) sustained by him before attaining the age of fourteen years, the date on which he attained that age;

(iv) in a case where he was, on the date on which he sustained the injury, a member of any of the armed forces of the Government of the United Kingdom, or a person employed in the nursing service or other auxiliary service of any of those forces, and was required to give whole time service as a member or as a person so employed;

(c) where the application is made in respect of an injury sustained by a person whose death is claimed to have been the direct result of that injury, a period of three months from the date on which the death occurred.