The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals Regulations 1989

Evidence: general

26.—(1) This regulation applies to information supplied in pursuance of regulations under any of paragraphs 6 to 10 and 13 to 15 of Schedule 2 to the Act.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, information to which this regulation applies shall in any relevant proceedings be admissible as evidence of any fact included in such information; and any document purporting to contain such information shall, unless the contrary is shown, be presumed–

(a) to have been supplied by the person by whom it purports to have been supplied;

(b) to have been supplied by that person in any capacity in which it purports to have been supplied.

(3) Information to which this regulation applies shall not be used in any relevant proceedings by a charging authority or registration officer unless–

(a) not less than 14 days' notice, specifying the information to be so used and the residence and person to which it relates has previously been given to every other party to the proceedings; and

(b) any person who has given not less than 24 hours' notice of his intention to do so has been permitted by that authority or officer, at any reasonable time, to inspect and take extracts from the documents or other media in or on which such information is held.

(4) In this regulation “relevant proceedings” means any proceedings on or in consequence of an appeal, and any proceedings on or in consequence of a reference to arbitration under regulation 33.