Section 83 — Special provisions relating to accidents occurring outside Indian territory.
83(3)
The claim of compensation shall be made—
(a) in the case of the death of an employee referred to in sub-section (1), one year after the news of the death has been received by the claimant;
(b) in the case where the ship or the aircraft as the case may be, has been or is deemed to have been lost with all hands, eighteen months of the date on which the ship or the aircraft was, or is deemed to have been, so lost:
Provided that the competent authority may entertain any claim to compensation in any case notwithstanding that the claim has not been preferred in due time as provided in this sub-section, if he is satisfied that the failure so to prefer the claim was due to sufficient cause.