Section 32: Bar to claim
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
32. Bar to claim
(1) Where the Board is satisfied that the cultivation and maintenance of
cane plantations have been neglected before or after the occurrence of a
cyclone or drought or excessive rainfall, the Board may refuse to pay
compensation in respect of those cane plantations or may reduce the
compensation payable to such amount as it thinks fit.
(2) The Board shall not consider any claim by an insured for compensation or for re-assessment of compensation in respect of the loss suffered by
the insured in any crop year unless—
(a) the claim is lodged in writing with the Board within 9 months of
the date on which the crop year was declared an event year or
within 3 months of an order of the Supreme Court declaring or
ordering the Board to declare an event year;
(b) in the case of a planter or métayer, his cane plantations have
been registered;
(c) section 40 (2C) has been complied with.
[S. 32 amended by s. 11 of Act 7 of 2007 w.e.f. 1 June 2006; s. 9 of Act 1 of 2012 w.e.f. 12
May 2012.]