Applications for certificates of total benefit
14.—(1) If at any time before he makes the compensation payment in question the compensator applies to the Department in accordance with paragraph 3 for a certificate of total benefit relating to the victim in question—
(a)the Department shall furnish him with such a certificate before the end of the period of 4 weeks, or such other number of weeks as may be prescribed, following the day on which the application is, or is deemed in accordance with regulations to be, received; and
(b)any certificate so furnished shall, in particular, specify for the purposes of paragraph 3(2)(a) a date not earlier than the date of the application.
(2) Where it furnishes any person with a certificate of total benefit, the Department shall also provide the information contained in that certificate to the person who appears to the Department to be the victim in relation to the compensation payment in question.
(3) The victim may apply to the Department for particulars of the manner in which any amount, rate or period specified in a certificate of total benefit has been determined.