# The Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (Procedure) Rules 2007, Article 7: Notice of appeal


(1) The notice of appeal must—
(a) set out the grounds on which the appellant applied to the Secretary of State under section 4 of the 2000 Act for an order under section 3(3) or (8) of that Act;
(b) set out the grounds for the appeal to the Commission;
(c) give reasons in support of the grounds mentioned in sub-paragraph (b);
(d) where proceedings are brought under section 7(1)(a) of the 1998 Act, give details of the Convention right which is alleged to have been infringed.
(2) The notice of appeal must be signed—
(a) where the appellant is the organisation, by a person who claims to be a member of the organisation or by its representative;
(b) where the appellant is a person affected by the organisation’s proscription or by the treatment of a name as a name for the organisation, by that person or by his representative,
and be dated.
(3) The notice of appeal must state—
(a) the name of the organisation;
(b) the name and address of the signatory of the notice and the category of person mentioned in paragraph (2) into which he falls;
(c) the name and address of any representative of the appellant, where the representative is not the signatory.
(4) Where the signatory of the notice of appeal is the appellant’s representative, he must certify in the notice that he has completed the notice in accordance with the appellant’s instructions.
(5) The signatory of the notice of appeal must attach to it a copy of the document which informed the appellant of the decision being appealed against.
(6) As soon as practicable after it receives a notice of appeal, the Commission must serve—
(a) an acknowledgement of filing of the notice of appeal on the signatory of the notice; and
(b) a copy of the notice of appeal on the Secretary of State.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110762470/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-proscribed-organisations-appeal-commission-procedure-rules-2007/article-7
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