8.—(1) An appeal to the National Assembly against a remediation notice must be made to the National Assembly by a notice (“notice of appeal”) which must state—
(a)the name and address of the appellant;
(b)the grounds on which the appeal is made; and
(c)whether the appellant wishes the appeal to be in the form of a hearing or to be disposed of on the basis of written representations.
(2) The appellant must, at the same time as serving a notice of appeal on the National Assembly, serve—
(a)a copy of it on—
(i)the enforcing authority,
(ii)any person named in the remediation notice as an appropriate person,
(iii)any person named in the notice of appeal as an appropriate person, and
(iv)any person named in the remediation notice as the owner or occupier of the whole or any part of the land to which the notice relates;
(b)on the National Assembly a statement of the names and addresses of any persons falling within sub-paragraph (a)(ii), (iii) or (iv); and
(c)a copy of the remediation notice to which the appeal relates on the National Assembly and on any person named in the notice of appeal as an appropriate person who is not so named in the remediation notice.
(3) If the appellant wishes to abandon an appeal, the appellant must do so by notifying the National Assembly in writing; and the appeal will then be treated as abandoned as from the date on which the National Assembly receives that notification.
(4) The National Assembly may refuse to permit an appellant to abandon an appeal against a remediation notice where the notification by the appellant in accordance with paragraph (3) is received by the National Assembly at any time after the National Assembly has notified the appellant in accordance with regulation 11(1) of a proposed modification of that notice.
(5) Where an appeal is abandoned, the National Assembly must give notice of the abandonment to any person on whom the appellant was required to serve a copy of the notice of appeal.