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Second Schedule.
With- drawal of Appeal,
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they be adjourned or struck out.
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(4) 1 shall be a sufficient compliance with a direction given for the disclosure of a document, or part of a document, under this regulation, if there is produced a photostatic copy of the document, or the part thereof, or a written or a typed copy, certified as a true copy by an officer of the department concerned authorized in that behalf by the head of the department.
23. (1) Not less than twenty-eight days before the date fixed for the hearing, a notice of hearing in the form set out in the Second Schedule, or in a form to the like effect, shall be sent by the secretary by registered post to the appellant, and the Board shall be informed of the date so fixed.
(2) If, at any time before the date fixed for the hearing, the appellant becomes aware of any circumstances which will prevent him from attending the Tribunal on the date so fixeLİ, he shall (unless the appeal is to be heard in his absence under regulation 34) immediately notify the secretary of his inability to appear, stating the reasons therefor.
24. (1) An appellam may, at any time before the bearing, give notice to the secretary that he desires to withdraw his appeal, and thereupon the appeal shall be struck out.
(2) Where, after a notice of appeal has been given, the Board decide the issue arising on the appeal in favour of the appellant, the Board shall give notice of their decision to the secretary and to the appellant, and the appeal shall be struck out.
25. Subject to the provisions of regulations 34 and 36, if prosecuted the appellant fails to appear at any hearing of the appeal, and such appellant has not sent to the secretary a request that his appeal should be heard in his absence, or representations have not been made on behalf of the appellant that he desires his appeal to be heard in his absence, the chairman of the Tribunal may adjourn the hearing of the appeal to a subsequent date, or, in his discretion, may order that the appeal be struck out: Provided that, in the latter case, the chairman may, on the application of the appellant made not later than three months after the date on which the appeal was struck out, if he is satisfied that the appellant's failure to appear was not due to his wilful default, restore the appeal and fix a date for the hearing thereof.
Representa- 26. (1) An appellant may conduct his case himself or may tion of the be represented by any person (whether holding any legal or appellant and the other qualification or being a member of the British Legion or board.
other body or not) whom he may appoint to assist him for the purpose.
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(a) The Board may be represented by any person whom they may appoint for the purpose.
(3) I shall be the duty of the Tribunal to assist any appellant who appears to them to be unable to make the best of his case.
27. (1) The appellant may give evidence in support of his Evidence. appeal and the appellant and the Board may, subjeer to the provisions of sub-regulation (2), call a medical practitioner or any other witness, and may produce at the hearing any further documentary evidence not already in the possession of the Tribunal.
(2) Where the appellant or the Board intends to call a medical practitioner as a witness at the hearing, they shall, unless they have already notified the secretary of their intention to call the witness, send notice of their intention to the secretary not less than seven days before the date fixed for the hearing, and the secretary shall notify the Board or, as the case may be, the appellant, who shall then be entitled to call a medical practi tioner at the hearing with giving notice.
(3) The Tribunal may require the appellant to furnish such evidence of his identity as they may think fit, and, where the appeal is brought by a person acting on behalf of the appellant, the Tribunal may require him to satisfy them as to his qualifica- tions for so acting.
(4) The Tribunal may summon before them expert or other witnesses.
(s) The Tribunal shall not refuse evidence tendered to them on the ground only that such evidence would be inadmissible in a court of law.
(6) Subject to any direction given by the chairman of the Tribunal under regulation 22 or 30 and to the provisions of regulation 36, every document tendered in evidence or considered by the Tribunal for the purposes of the appeal shall be made available to the appellant or his representative (if any) and to the Board or their representative in such manner as the Tribunal may direct.
28. (r) At the hearing the Tribunal shall give an Procedure opportunity to the appellant or his representative to address the at bearing. Tribunal and call witnesses and, if the appellant is not repre- sented, the examination of the appellant's witnesses may, if the appellant so desires, be conducted by the chairman of the