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reference, or the interest of the appellant in or such other concern or association as he
may have with the subject-matter of the appeal.
Rule 4.—Every statement of appeal shall be accompanied by every such document
as an appellant has in his possession or at his disposal, and is able to furnish, and as
consists of, or comprises, or gives particulars of, any notice, order, demand, or apportionment
relating to the grounds or subject-matter of the appeal, or otherwise relating
to any material facts set forth in the appeal; and shall show by appropriate particulars
in the statement of appeal, or by an appropriate entry on any such document
accompanying the statement of appeal, the date of service upon an appellant of the
notice, order, demand, or apportionment.
Rule 5.—Where an appeal appears to the Local Government Board to require for
its due consideration that information, other than such information as is set forth in
the statement of appeal, or is supplied by means of any document accompanying the
statement of appeal, or by means of any statement by or correspondence with an
appellant or the Local Authority respecting the appeal, shall be furnished to the Local
Government Board, the requisite information shall, on the written request of the Local
Government Board, be furnished by an appellant or by the Local Authority, as the
case may be, in such manner, in such form, and within such time as the Local
Government Board in writing specify.
Rule 6.—Where the Local Government Board on an appeal are satisfied that there
is reasonable cause for dispensing, either conditionally or unconditionally, with
compliance with any requirement of the foregoing Rules, or for varying any such
requirement, the Local Government Board may, by a notification in writing to an
appellant or to the Local Authority, as the case may be, give the necessary dispensation
to the appellant or to the Local Authority, as the case may be, or may make and give
effect to the necessary variation and to any incidents or consequences of that variation ;
and, in the case of any such dispensation when given subject to any condition, or in the
case of any such variation, an appellant or the Local Authority, as the case may be,
shall comply in all respects with the condition or variation, and with any requirement
of the notification by the Local Government Board, as if the condition, variation, or
requirement formed part of the foregoing Rules.
Rule 7.—Where the Local Government Board, before considering an appeal, require
an appellant to deposit a sum to cover the costs of the appeal, the sum shall be —
(а) In every case in which the Office of the Local Authority is at a
distance not exceeding fifty miles from the Office of the Local
Government Board—
Seven Pounds; and
(b) In every other case—
Ten Pounds.
For the purposes of this Rule, the distance shall be measured by a straight line drawn
on the third edition of the map of the Ordnance survey on the scale of 3 '-5 ,5 or one
mile to one inch, from the nearest point in one Office to the nearest point in the other
Office.
Rule 8.—Except so far as this Rule otherwise provides, and so far as regards any
costs incurred by the Local Government Board in relation to a public local inquiry
held in pursuance of these Rules, all costs of and incidental to an appeal shall, when
incurred by an appellant or by the Local Authority, be borne by the appellant or by
the Local Authority as the case may be: Provided that the Local Government Board
may, by any Order made under Sub-section (1) of Section 39 of the Housing, Town
Planning, &c., Act, 1909, direct by whom any such costs, when incurred by an appellant
or by the Local Authority, shall be borne ; and that nothing in this Rule shall have
effect in contravention or in derogation of any such direction.
Rule 9.—The Local Government Board shall not dismiss an appeal without having
first held a public local inquiry.
Where the Local Government Board are required to hold a public local inquiry, and
written notice of the time and place at which the inquiry will be held has been given