Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015;

• “asset transfer request” means the asset transfer request to which the appeal relates;

• “community transfer body” means the community transfer body which made the asset transfer request;

• “contact address” has the meaning given in regulation 18;

• “decision notice” means the notice given by the relevant authority of its decision on the asset transfer request;

• “hearing session” means a hearing held or to be held into matters specified in a notice given under rule 1(1) of the Hearing Session Rules;

• “Hearing Session Rules” means the rules set out in the schedule;

• “relevant authority” means the relevant authority to whom the asset transfer request was made;

• “relevant authority’s response” has the meaning given in regulation 4(2)(a);

• “review panel” means the persons appointed by the Scottish Ministers under regulation 5(1) to consider the appeal and report to them on it;

• “rule” means a rule set out in the schedule;

• “specified matters” are, in relation to a request for further written representations or information under regulation 8 or to a particular hearing session, those matters which are set out in the notice given under regulation 8(1) or rule 1(1) of the Hearing Session Rules, as the case may be; and

• “working day” means every day except—

  1. (a)

     Saturday and Sunday;

  2. (b)

     25th and 26th December; and

  3. (c)

     1st and 2nd January.