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1964 Ed.] Business Registration Appeal Rules.

[CAP. 310

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[Subsidiary]

BUSINESS

REGISTRATION APPEAL RULES.

G.N.A. 19/59.

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1. These Appeal Rules.

2.

(Cap. 310, section 17).

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LUNG

[26th March, 1959.]

may cited as the Business Registration

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Any person (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) desiring to appeal under section 17 of the Ordinance shall within six weeks of being informed of the decision against which he desires to appeal, give notice to the Commissioner in writing re- quiring him to prepare a case for submission to the Court, and shall at the same time forward to him a signed statement setting out all the facts considered relevant to the appeal together with any documents, or copies thereof, in support. Such notice shall contain the address to which the case is to be posted.

3. (1) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that the requirement to prepare a case is frivolous and that there is no question requiring determination by the Court, he may refuse to prepare a case and shall, within the period required for so doing under rule 4, inform the appellant.

(2) Where the Commissioner refuses to prepare a case the appellant may, within thirty days of being so informed, apply by summons ex parte to the Court, and the Court shall if satisfied that there is a question requiring its determination order the Com- missioner to prepare the case within such period as it shall specify.

4. Subject to the provisions of rule 3, the Commissioner shall within six weeks of the receipt of a notification under rule 2 or within such period as may be specified under paragraph (2) of rule 3, prepare, sign and post to the appellant at the address given in such notification a case which shall contain-

(a) the facts set out in the statement by the appellant under rule 2 with an indication as to which facts are disputed by the Commissioner;

(b) such other facts, if any, on which the Commissioner

relies; and

(c) an annex incorporating-

Citation.

Notice of intention to appeal.

(i) those documents, or copies thereof, forwarded by the appellant the contents of which are agreed by the Commissioner; and

(ii) documents, or copies thereof which the Commis- sioner relies on in support of the facts set out under

Commissioner may refuse frivolous

appeals.

Commissioner

to prepare the case.