3.—(1) An appeal shall be made by delivering a notice of appeal to the proper officer.
(2) A notice of appeal—
(a)must state the name and address of the appellant;
(b)may specify some other address as being the address to which he wishes documents to be sent to him in connection with the appeal;
(c)must state the date and any reference number of the decision and the name of the local authority who made the disputed decision; and
(d)may include any representations which the appellant desires to make in addition to the original representations.
(3) If the notice of appeal is delivered to the proper officer later than the time limit mentioned in section 72(1) of, or paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 6 to, the Act [F1or mentioned in paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1996 Act] (as the case may be), the appellant must include in the notice a statement of the reasons on which he relies for justifying the delay, and the adjudicator shall treat any such statement of reasons for delay as a request for extending that time limit.
(4) The appellant or his authorised representative shall sign the notice of appeal.