Application for review of decision by local authorityS
22.—(1) A scheme must make provision allowing for the recipient of a decision to make an application to the local authority for a review of the decision.
(2) An application for review—
(a)must be made in writing within 28 days beginning with the date that notice of a decision is served on the applicant,
(b)must include a statement in support of the application for review,
(c)may be supported by such evidence as the applicant considers to be appropriate.
(3) The local authority may consider whether it is appropriate to take account of an application made under this regulation which is received by them after the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (2)(a).
(4) A decision which is the subject of an application for review does not have effect until the date of determination of that application.
(5) In this regulation and, as the case may be, regulations 23 and 24—
“applicant” means a person applying for a review of a decision of a local authority,
“decision” means—
a determination of an application for a licence or for renewal or variation of a licence,
a decision to attach a condition to a licence,
a decision to revoke, suspend or vary a licence.