Article 6 Applicant dies before application determined: dismissal of application

If the Board is informed that an applicant for compensation under the Act has died without the application being determined and without any person expressing an intention to proceed with the application in accordance with rule 5, the Board must make whatever enquiries it considers reasonable for contacting relatives of the deceased.

If, at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which the Board begins enquiries under paragraph (1), no person has expressed an intention to proceed with the application in accordance with rule 5, the application is dismissed.

But paragraph (2) does not prevent a fresh application for compensation being made on behalf of the deceased under the Act after the expiry of the three-month period referred to in that paragraph.