Where an appropriate authority in England refuse an application for the grant or renewal of a bookmaker’s permit, betting agency permit or betting office licence, they shall forthwith notify the applicant of the refusal, and within F1twenty-one days of being so notified the applicant may by notice to the F2proper officer of the authority appeal against the refusal to F3the Crown Court.

As soon as practicable after receiving notice of appeal against the refusal, the F2proper officer of the authority shall send the notice to F4the appropriate officer of the Crown Court together with a statement of the decision from which the appeal is brought and of the name and last known residence or place of business of the appellant and of any person who opposed the application before the authority.

On receipt of the notice of appeal, F4the appropriate officer of the Crown Court shall enter the appeal and give in writing not less than seven days notice to the appellant, to the appropriate officer of police and to any person who opposed the application before the authority and, if the appeal relates to a betting office licence, to the authority, of the date, time and place appointed for the hearing of the appeal.

A justice shall not act in the hearing or determination of an appealunder this paragraph from any decision in which he took part.

For the purposes of paragraphs 10, 33 and 34 of this Schedule, the grant or renewal of a permit or licence by F3the Crown Court under this paragraph shall be treated as if it were a grant or renewal by the appropriate authority who refused it.