The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2003

5.—(1) Where an appeal under regulation 26 is to be disposed of on the basis of written representations, the regulator shall submit any written representations to the appeal body not later than 28 days after receiving a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph 1(2)(a) and (f).

(2) The appellant shall make any further representations by way of reply to any representations from the regulator not later than 17 days after the date of submission of those representations by the regulator.

(3) Any representations made by the appellant or the regulator shall bear the date on which they are submitted to the appeal body.

(4) When the regulator or the appellant submits any representations to the appeal body they shall at the same time send a copy of them to the other party.

(5) The appeal body shall send to the appellant and the regulator a copy of any representations made to it by the persons mentioned in paragraph 3(1) and shall allow the appellant and the regulator a period of not less than 14 days in which to make representations on them.

(6) The appeal body may in a particular case—

(a) set later time limits than those mentioned in this paragraph;

(b) require exchanges of representations between the parties in addition to those mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2).