{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/first-tier-tribunal-for-scotland-social-security-chamber-procedure-regulations-2018/schedule/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/first-tier-tribunal-for-scotland-social-security-chamber-procedure-regulations-2018/schedule/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/273",
  "legislation_title": "The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Social Security Chamber (Procedure) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/first-tier-tribunal-for-scotland-social-security-chamber-procedure-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Response of the decision maker to a notice of appeal against a determination of entitlement",
  "text": "(1) The First-tier Tribunal must notify each party in writing when a notice of appeal submitted under any of the following provisions has been accepted as containing sufficient information to be valid—\n(a) rule 20 (notice of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a determination of entitlement to assistance of a type provided for in Part 2 of the 2018 Act);\n(b) rule 20A (notice of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a determination of entitlement to a Scottish child payment); or\n(c) rule 20B (notice of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a determination of entitlement to a carer’s allowance supplement).\n(2) The decision maker must send or deliver to the First-tier Tribunal a response to any notice of appeal submitted under rule 20, 20A or 20B before the expiry of the period of 31 days beginning with the day on which the decision maker received notification from the First-tier Tribunal that the notice of appeal had been accepted as containing sufficient information to be valid.\n(3) The response must include—\n(a) the name and address of the decision maker;\n(b) the name and address of the decision maker’s representative (if any);\n(c) a postal or email address where documents for the decision maker may be sent or delivered;\n(d) the position of the decision maker in relation to the appellant’s case; and\n(e) any views of the decision maker as to whether the matter should be dealt with at a hearing or without a hearing.\n(4) Unless a practice direction states otherwise, the decision maker must provide with the response copies of any documents relevant to the case which are in the decision-maker’s possession and which have not already been provided to the First-tier Tribunal.\n(5) The First-tier Tribunal must provide the appellant with a copy of the decision-maker’s response and any documents accompanying that response which have not already been supplied to the appellant.\n(6) The appellant may make written comments to the First-tier Tribunal and supply further documents to it in reply to the decision maker’s response.\n(7) Any comments or further documents referred to in paragraph (5) must be provided to the First-tier Tribunal within the period of 31 days beginning with the day on which the appellant is presumed to have received the response, as sent by the decision maker, and the First-tier Tribunal must send a copy to the decision maker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. rules 21(1), (2) substituted (24.12.2020) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Social Security Chamber and Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Allocation of Functions, Procedure and Composition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/476), regs. 1, 5(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. rule 21(5) substituted (21.12.2018) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Social Security Chamber (Rules of Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/343), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/273/schedule/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:12.125890+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."
}