Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Rules 1998

5.  Rule 4 shall be amended as follows—

(a)in paragraph (1) for the words “given to the Secretary of State on whichever form of notice of appeal set out in Schedule 1 is appropriate” there shall be substituted the words “on an appropriate form”; and

(b)for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph—

(3) A notice of appeal shall be signed by the appellant, or as the case may be, by a person acting on behalf of the appellant, shall bear the date on which it was signed and shall be sent by post addressed to the Secretary of State for Social Security..