15. In the event that a natural person or an enterprise wishes to be sure that the list of bodies contracted with since 1 October 1996 is complete, the natural person or enterprise may request that the Director publish within 30 days, on the Director’s website, a notice addressed to all public bodies to the effect that the natural person or enterprise will be making a proposal to the public bodies specified in the notice of intent. The Director informs the Minister before publishing such a notice.
The notice must also state that if public bodies not appearing on the list consider they have improperly paid amounts to the natural person or enterprise, they must so inform the Director and the Minister within 90 days after the notice is published. On receiving such information, the Minister makes it available to the Director.
Public bodies availing themselves of this section must also comply with sections 17 to 19.
The Director informs the natural person or enterprise that a public body not appearing in the notice has availed itself of this section and invite the natural person or enterprise to take that fact into account in the settlement proposal.