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F1Sch. 11 Pt. 2 para. 8(1) and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2009) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), s. 245(5), Sch. 15 para. 11; S.I. 2008/3110, art. 6(c)(ii)
8(1)Regulations under paragraph A19 or paragraph 1 may include provision of any kind specified in this paragraph.]E+W
(2)The regulations may include provision—
(a)prescribing the procedure to be followed for initiating an appeal, and authorising or requiring it to be dismissed if it is not initiated within a prescribed time;
(b)authorising an appeal to be disposed of on the basis of written representations in prescribed circumstances;
(c)prescribing the procedure to be followed before the hearing of an appeal;
(d)authorising an appeal to be withdrawn before the hearing in prescribed circumstances.
(3)The regulations may include provision prescribing the procedure to be followed at the hearing of an appeal, and such provision may include provision—
(a)requiring the hearing to take place in public except in prescribed circumstances;
(b)as to the persons entitled to appear and to be heard on behalf of parties to the appeal;
(c)authorising the hearing to proceed in the absence of a party or parties to the appeal in prescribed circumstances;
(d)requiring persons to attend to give evidence and produce documents;
(e)that no rule of confidentiality applicable to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall prevent the disclosure for the purposes of the appeal of particulars delivered documents (within the meaning of Part I of the 1992 Act);
(ea)as to evidence generally (whether written evidence or oral evidence given under oath or affirmation) and, in particular, as to the use as evidence of particulars delivered [F2documents,] of information supplied under—
(i)Schedule 9 above;
(ii)regulations under Schedule 2 above;
(iii)section 82 of the 1967 Act; or
[F3(iv)paragraph 15A or 15B of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act or regulations under that Schedule;]
F4... of information disclosed by virtue of section 1(1) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Information) Act 1996 [F5 or of information supplied under section 131 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 for purposes relating to council tax;];
(f)as to the adjournment of the hearing.
(4)The regulations may include provision—
(a)that where two or more members of a tribunal are acting the decision of the majority is to prevail or, if the votes are equal, the appeal is to be reheard;
(b)requiring reasons for a decision to be given;
(c)authorising a decision to be given orally or in writing;
(d)authorising a decision to be reserved;
(e)authorising or requiring an order to be made in consequence of a decision;
[F6(f)that an order may require a register or list to be altered (prospectively or retrospectively);
(fa)that an order may require the designation of an individual as a responsible individual or as a certification officer, or a designation under section 5 above, to be revoked;
(fb)that an order may require an estimate to be quashed or altered;
(fc)that an order may require a penalty to be quashed;
(fd)that an order may require a decision of a billing authority to be reversed;
(fe)that an order may require a calculation (other than an estimate) of an amount to be quashed and may require the amount to be recalculated;]
(g)that an order may require any ancillary matter to be attended to;
(h)authorising or requiring a tribunal to review or set aside a decision, or to vary or revoke an order, of the tribunal in prescribed circumstances.
(5)The regulations may include provision—
(a)requiring decisions and orders to be recorded;
(b)as to the proof of decisions and orders;
(c)authorising the correction of clerical errors in records of decisions and orders;
(d)requiring decisions, orders and corrections to be communicated to the parties to appeals.
(6)The regulations may include provision that, subject to any other provision of the regulations, a tribunal may regulate its own procedure.
(7)The regulations may include provision that a person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed by the regulations under sub-paragraph (3)(d) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
Textual Amendments
F2Word in Sch. 11 para. 8(3)(ea) substituted (22.5.1996) by 1996 c. 13, s. 1(3)(a)
F3Sch. 11 para. 8(3)(ea)(iv) substituted (31.10.2012) by Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17), s. 17(6)(a)
F4Word in Sch. 11 para. 8(3)(ea) omitted (31.10.2012) by virtue of Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17), s. 17(6)(b)
F5Words in Sch. 11 para. 8(3)(ea) inserted (31.10.2012) by Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17), s. 17(6)(c)
F6Sch. 11 para. 8(4)(f)-(fe) substituted (6.3.1992) for Sch. 11 para. 8(4)(f) by 1992 c. 14, s. 117(1), Sch. 13 para. 88(7) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))
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