PART IIProcedure relating to appeals

Initiating an appealI13

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.