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person as the Minister may from time to time appoint Demolition to act as clerk to the appeal tribunal. (2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3. An appeal under section 6 (2) of the Act to the Minister from a refusal by a local authority to give permission to demolish a house, in whole or in part, shall be made by sending to the clerk to the appeal tribunal a notice of appeal signed by the appellant or by his duly authorised agent.

4. The clerk to the appeal tribunal shall, as soon as may be after receipt of the notice aforesaid, send to the local authority a copy of the notice of appeal.

5. The local authority shall, within seven days after the receipt by them of the said notification, send a notice to the clerk to the appeal tribunal and to the appellant stating whether and to what extent they admit the facts stated in the appellant's notice of appeal and including a concise statement of the grounds on which permission was refused.

6. The appeal tribunal may at any stage of the proceedings allow the amendment of any notice, statement, or particulars on such terms as they think fit, and may require the appellant or the local authority within a specified time to furnish in writing such further particulars as they think necessary.

7. (1) If, after considering the notice of appeal and the statement of the local authority in reply and any further particulars which may have been furnished by either party, the appeal tribunal are of opinion that the case is of such a nature that it can properly be determined without a hearing, they may dispense with a hearing, and may determine the appeal summarily.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, the appeal tribunal shall fix a date for the hearing of the appeal, and shall give not less than seven days' notice to the appellant and the local authority of the time and place of the hearing.

8. The procedure of the appeal tribunal at the hearing of an appeal shall be such as they may from time to time determine.

9. The appeal tribunal may, if they think fit, and

1 52-3 Vict. c. 63.

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subject to such conditions as they may impose, proceed with the consideration of any appeal, notwithstanding any failure or omission by any person to comply with the requirements of these rules.

10. The decision of the appeal tribunal shall be in writing signed by the chairman and clerk, and a copy of the decision shall forthwith be sent to the appellant and to the local authority.

11. The forms set out in the schedule to these rules or forms substantially to the like effect shall be used for the purpose of these rules.

12. (1) Any notice or other document required or authorised by these rules to be sent to the clerk to the appeal tribunal shall be sufficiently sent if sent by post in a registered letter addressed to the Clerk of the Appeal Tribunal, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, S.W.1.

(2) Any notice or other document required or authorised by these rules to be sent by the clerk to the appeal tribunal or by the local authority to any appellant shall be sufficiently sent if sent by post to the address stated in the notice of appeal.

(3) Unless the contrary is proved any notice or document sent as aforesaid shall be deemed to be served at the time at which a letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.

SCHEDULE
FORM 1

Form of Notice of Appeal against a refusal of permission to demolish a house

HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) ACT, 1919

(Notice of appeal may be given by filling up and sending a copy of this form to the Clerk to the Appeal Tribunal, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, S.W.1.)

Full name of appellant.

Full address of appellant..

Address of house in respect of which the appeal is made

I, the undersigned, being the 1 .of the above-mentioned house hereby appeal to the Minister of

Health against the refusal of.

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to grant permission to me to demolish [part of '] the said Appeal house. Such permission was refused by the said local authority on the

..day of

....192.

My appeal is based on the ground that the said house is not capable without reconstruction of being rendered fit for human habitation.◄

[Here insert a concise statement of the facts and grounds of the appeal, including the estimated present value of the house and detailed particulars of the work required for rendering the house fit for human habitation and of the estimated cost of the work.]

Signature of Appellant..
Date....

1 State appellant's interest in the house.
2 State name of the local authority.

Strike out these words, if inappropriate.

This is the only ground of appeal which the Act permits.

FORM 2

Form of Statement of Reply by Local Authority
HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) ACT, 1919

1

In the matter of an appeal made by 1.

of....

refusal of

him to demolish the house 3

.against the

.to grant permission to

The following facts stated in the appellant's notice of appeal are admitted :

[Here insert statement of facts admitted] The grounds on which permission was refused are as follows:

[Here insert statement of grounds]

Dated this..

.day of...

192 .

Signature of clerk of local authority.

1 Insert name and address of appellant.

2 Insert name of local authority.

3 Insert address of house.

Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health,

this Twelfth day of April, in the year One thousand
nine hundred and twenty.

(L.S.)

CHRISTOPHER ADDISON,

Minister of Health.

Restriction

rent and

mortgage interest.

APPENDIX VIII

INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) ACT, 1920

[10 & 11 GEO. 5. CH. 17.]

An Act to consolidate and amend the Law with respect to
the increase of rent and recovery of possession of
premises in certain cases, and the increase of the rate
of interest on, and the calling in of securities on such
premises, and for purposes in connection therewith.
[2nd July 1920.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Restrictions on Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest

1. Subject to the provisions of this Act, where the rent on increasing of any dwelling-house to which this Act applies, or the rate of interest on a mortgage to which this Act applies, has been, since the twenty-fifth day of March nineteen hundred and twenty, or is hereafter, increased, then, if the increased rent or the increased rate of interest exceeds by more than the amount permitted under this Act the standard rent or standard rate of interest, the amount of such excess shall, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, be irrecoverable from the tenant or the mortgagor, as the case may be :

Provided that, where a landlord or mortgagee has

increased the rent of any such dwelling-house or the S. 1.
rate of interest on any such mortgage since the said date,
but before the passing of this Act, he may cancel such
increase and repay any amount paid by virtue thereof,
and in that case the rent or rate shall not be deemed
to have been increased since that date.

rent.

2. (1) The amount by which the increased rent of a Permitted dwelling-house to which this Act applies may exceed the increases in standard rent shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be as follows, that is to say:

(a) Where the landlord has since the fourth day of
August nineteen hundred and fourteen incurred,
or hereafter incurs, expenditure on the improve-
ment or structural alteration of the dwelling-house
(not including expenditure on decoration or re-
pairs), an amount calculated at a rate per annum
not exceeding six, or, in the case of such expenditure
incurred after the passing of this Act, eight per
cent. of the amount so expended :

Provided that the tenant may apply to the
county court for an order suspending or reducing
such increase on the ground that such expenditure
is or was unnecessary in whole or in part, and the
court may make an order accordingly :

(b) An amount not exceeding any increase in the
amount for the time being payable by the landlord
in respect of rates over the corresponding amount
paid in respect of the yearly, half-yearly or other
period which included the third day of August
nineteen hundred and fourteen, or in the case of
a dwelling-house for which no rates were payable
in respect of any period which included the said
date, the period which included the date on which
the rates first became payable thereafter:

(c) In addition to any such amounts as aforesaid,
an amount not exceeding fifteen per cent. of
the net rent:

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