111. Time limits.
(1) The Finance Act 2002 is amended by inserting the following after section 73:
(a) In relation to any month or period commencing on or after 1 May 2002, an estimate of betting duty payable or an assessment of betting duty payable under section 72 or 73 may be made at any time not later than 4 years after the end of the month or period to which the estimate or assessment relates or, where the period in respect of which the estimate or assessment is made consists of 2 or more months or periods, after the end of the earlier or the earliest month or period comprised in such month or period.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), in a case in which any form of fraud or neglect has been committed by or on behalf of any person in connection with or in relation to betting duty, an estimate or assessment as aforesaid may be made at any time for any month or period for which, by reason of the fraud or neglect, betting duty would otherwise be lost to the Exchequer.
(c) A person shall be deemed not to have failed to do anything required to be done within a limited time if he or she did it within such further time, if any, as the Revenue Commissioners may have allowed.
(d) Where a person has a reasonable excuse for not doing anything required to be done, he or she shall be deemed not to have failed to do it if he or she did it without unreasonable delay after the excuse had ceased.