2. An application for compensation shall be made to the person referred to in regulation 30(6) or, where regulation 29(1)(b) applies and no person has been found, to SEPA, within the period beginning with the date of the grant of the rights in respect of which compensation is claimed and ending on whichever is the latest of the following dates:–
(a)12 months after the date of the grant of those rights;
(b)where there is an appeal against the works notice which imposed the requirements in relation to which the rights in question were granted, 12 months after the date of the final determination or abandonment of the appeal; or
(c)6 months after the date on which the rights were first exercised.