Section 16 Regulations in connection with provisions of Part III.

as to the manner and form in which any application for an authorisation is to be made to F1the Secretary of State ;

as to the manner in which any notice under section 14 above is to be given to the Secretary of State, and as to the form in which any acknowledgment under subsection (3) of that section is to be issued by the Secretary of State ;

for requiring such reasonable fees as may, with the consent of the Treasury, be prescribed to be paid in connection with any application for an authorisation;

for enabling the Secretary of State to require such person or persons as he may appoint to afford the applicant for an authorisation a hearing and to report thereon to the Secretary of State;

for determining the locality of, and entitling persons other than the applicant to appear and be heard at, such a hearing;

as to the time to be allowed on any such application for the production of evidence or the taking of any prescribed steps for the purposes of such a hearing;

for requiring persons to attend and give evidence or produce documents at such hearings, and for authorising the administration of oaths to persons so attending;

for enabling any person entitled to appear otherwise than as a witness at any such hearing to be represented by another person, whether professionally qualified or not;

for prescribing anything which under this Part of this Act is required or authorised to be prescribed.

premises or land owned by, but not occupied by or for the purposes of, the Crown:

works on such land which have been or are being executed otherwise than by or on behalf of the Crown or for the purposes of a visiting force.