{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-tribunal-enforcement-appeals-rules-2000/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/189",
  "legislation_title": "The Data Protection Tribunal (Enforcement Appeals) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-tribunal-enforcement-appeals-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Time limit for appealing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a notice of appeal must be served on the Tribunal within 28 days of the date on which the notice relating to the disputed decision was served on or given to the appellant.\n(2) The Tribunal may accept a notice of appeal served after the expiry of the period permitted by paragraph (1) above if it is of the opinion that, by reason of special circumstances, it is just and right to do so.\n(3) A notice of appeal shall if sent by post in accordance with rule 27(1) below be treated as having been served on the date on which it is received for dispatch by the Post Office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/189/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:12.780437+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}