Appeal 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. Demolition 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 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. Demolition Rules. 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.. 1 State appellant's interest in the house. 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 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 (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 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. 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 Provided that the tenant may apply to the (b) An amount not exceeding any increase in the (c) In addition to any such amounts as aforesaid, |