The Education (Registered Inspectors of Schools Appeal Tribunal) (Procedure) Regulations 1994

Chief Inspector’s reply

10.—(1) On receipt of a copy of a notice of appeal the Chief Inspector shall deliver to the Tribunal a written reply acknowledging service of the notice of appeal and stating:–

(a) whether or not the Chief Inspector intends to oppose the appeal and the grounds on which he relies in opposing the appeal;

(b) the name and address and (where appropriate) the profession of the representative (if any) of the Chief Inspector and whether such address is the address for service of the Chief Inspector for the purposes of the appeal;

(c) whether the Chief Inspector wishes a hearing to be held or not.

(2) The Chief Inspector shall include with his reply a statement summarising the facts relating to the disputed decision and, if the reasons for it were not communicated to the appellant at the same time as the decision itself, the reasons for it, together with copies of the documents on which he relied in making the disputed decision, and shall deliver to the Tribunal an additional copy of the reply and of those documents so that the proper officer can provide a copy of each of them to the appellant.

(3) Every such reply shall be signed by a member of the Chief Inspector’s staff who has been authorised by him to sign such documents and shall be delivered to the Tribunal not later than twenty–eight days after the date on which the copy of the notice of appeal was received by the Chief Inspector from the Tribunal.

(4) The Chief Inspector may include in the reply, or in a separate notice to the Tribunal:–

(a) a request for further particulars of the appeal;

(b) a request for a determination of any question as a preliminary issue.

(5) The provisions of paragraph (3) of regulation 14 shall apply in relation to any document required by paragraph (2) above to be included with the reply.