Section 7 Eligibility and claims for payment of grant
Subject to paragraph (2) and Article 15, applicants whose applications have been approved shall be eligible for payment of grant in accordance with Article 11.
No grant shall be paid to an applicant in respect of any vessel unless –
a claim form in respect of that application, signed by the applicant, has been lodged with the Department on or before the appropriate decommissioning date; and
the Department is satisfied that the requirements set out in Articles 8 and 9 have been complied with.
In this Scheme “the appropriate decommissioning date” means such date as the Department may from time to time determine for the purposes of Article 8(3).
The Department shall publish a notice specifying the appropriate decommissioning date in such manner as it considers appropriate.
A claim form submitted in pursuance of a notice published under sub-paragraph (4) shall be in writing, shall be made in such form and manner, shall include such information and declarations and shall be delivered to such address as the Department may specify in the notice or from time to time require and (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) shall include declarations that –
the vessel has been decommissioned in accordance with the requirements of Article 8;
all licences and claims to licences have been surrendered in accordance with the requirements of Article 9(1)(a); and
the vessel has been removed from the register.
An applicant shall furnish all such further information in support of the claim form as the Department may specify in the notice or from time to time require.
The Department may revoke an approval in respect of which no claim has been lodged on or before the appropriate decommissioning date.