OpenLegislation

Paragraph 9 Additional documents, amendment and withdrawal of the reply

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The appropriate body may at any time before it receives notice under paragraph 13 of the date fixed for the hearing or a decision of the appeal body under paragraph 11–

(a)

send copies of such additional documents as it wishes to rely on for the purposes of opposing the appeal to the proper officer;

(b)

amend or withdraw its reply, or any part of it;

(c)

amend or withdraw any material submitted in support of the reply.

(2)

The appropriate body may at any time take any step mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) with the leave of the appeal body.

(3)

A reply shall be amended or withdrawn by sending to the proper officer an amended reply or a notice stating that the reply is withdrawn, as the case may be.