Exchange of evidence
8.—(1) In addition to any documents already sent to the National Assembly by the appellant in accordance with regulation 6 of the Provisional Maps Regulations (in the case of an appeal under section 6 of the Act), and by the respondent in accordance with regulation 4 of these Regulations, the appellant and the respondent must, within 6 weeks of the starting date, send to the National Assembly two copies of any further written representations or other documents on which they wish to rely or, if they do not wish to rely on any such further representations or other documents, a notice to that effect.
(2) The National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receiving any further representations, other documents or notices pursuant to paragraph (1), send a copy of those representations, documents or notices to the appellant or the respondent, as appropriate.
(3) The appellant and the respondent must, within 9 weeks of the starting date, send to the National Assembly two copies of any further representations, other documents or notices on which they wish to rely or, if they do not wish to rely on any such further representations or other documents, a notice to that effect.
(4) Where representations have been made to the National Assembly by anyone other than the appellant and the respondent, the National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receiving those representations, send a copy of them to the appellant, and to the respondent, who must, if they wish to submit any comments on those representations to the National Assembly, send two copies of their comments to the National Assembly within 9 weeks of the starting date.
(5) The National Assembly may, in a particular case, invite the appellant and the respondent to send to the National Assembly and to each other, within such reasonable time as it may specify, such further representations or other documents as it believes are necessary in order to enable the appeal to be determined.