17Appeal against an improvement notice.N.I.
(1)Within one month from the service of an improvement notice, the person served with such notice and any person entitled to make representations against the service thereof may in accordance with such county court rules as may be made in that behalf appeal to the county court having jurisdiction for the area in which the land to which the notice relates is situate and that court, whose decision shall be final, shall have power to confirm, modify or cancel the notice.
(2)For the purpose of hearing appeals under this section the county court judge shall be assisted by two assessors, one of whom shall be appointed by the Ministry and the other shall be appointed by such organisation as appears to the Ministry to represent the interests of the farmers in the area in which the land is situate:
Provided that where such organisation neglects or fails to appoint such other assessor within a period of ten days after being asked by the Ministry to do so, the Ministry may itself appoint such other assessor.
(3)Where land lies partly in the area of one civil bill division and partly in the area of another, the Ministry may direct that for the purposes of any appeal under this section the whole of the land shall be deemed to be in such of those divisions as may be specified in the direction.