Rule 27 Amendments to the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (General Regulatory Chamber) Rules 2009

in sub-paragraph (1)(a) omit the wording and substitute “if a time for providing the notice of appeal is set out in paragraph (6), within that time”;

in paragraph (5) after the first reference to “appeal” insert “, subject to rule 19(2)(national security appeals),”; and

insert after paragraph (5)—

“(6)

The time for providing the notice of appeal referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is as follows—

(a)

in an appeal against a refusal or revocation of a licence to give driving instruction, within 14 days of the date on which notice of the decision was sent to the appellant;

(b)

in an appeal under section 28(4) of the Data Protection Act 1998 or section 60(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (including that subsection as applied and modified by regulation 18 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004), at any time during the currency of the disputed certificate to which it relates;

(c)

in an appeal under section 28(6) of the Data Protection Act 1998 or section 60(4) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (including that subsection as applied and modified by regulation 18 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004), within 28 days of the date on which the claim was made that the certificate applies to the information or data in question;

(d)

in the case of a reference from an ethical standards officer made in accordance with sections 63(3)(b) or section 65(4) of the Local Government Act 2000(a), within 28 days of the completion of the report made in accordance with sections 63(3)(a) and 65(1) of that Act; or

(e)

in the case of a reference from a Standards Committee under the Local Government Act 2000 within 28 days of the meeting which decided to make such a reference.”