Space Industry Act 2018

Procedure regulations

15 (1) Regulations may make provision regulating the conduct and disposal of appeals.

(2) Regulations may make provision supplementing the provisions of this Schedule in relation to any application or requirement for which this Schedule provides.

(3) Regulations may in particular make provision—

(a) about the manner in which a panel makes its decisions;

(b) about the form of an application for permission to appeal under this Schedule and the information to be provided with an application;

(c) about the conditions subject to which permission to appeal may be granted;

(d) requiring information to be verified by a statement of truth;

(e) about the time limits for taking any step in an appeal before a panel;

(f) about intervention in an appeal;

(g) about the matters to be taken into account (or disregarded) by a panel when considering an appeal;

(h) about the production of documents or information to a panel;

(i) about the holding of oral hearings;

(j) for dealing with matters without a hearing;

(k) about evidence (including the taking of evidence on oath and the administration of oaths);

(l) about the circumstances in which an appeal may be dismissed by a panel;

(m) about withdrawal—

(i) of an application for permission to appeal under this Schedule or, after permission has been granted, of an appeal,

(ii) of an application for permission to intervene or, after permission has been granted, of an intervention, or

(iii) of any other application in connection with an appeal;

(n) about the consequences of non-payment of a fee.

(4) Regulations under this paragraph—

(a) may make provision to enable a panel to require the reimbursement of any fee required to be paid by a party to an application or appeal under this Schedule by another party to that application or appeal, but

(b) may not confer on a panel any other power (whether by order or otherwise) to require a party to an application or appeal under this Schedule to make payments to another party to the application or appeal in respect of costs.

(5) Sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4)(a) do not limit sub-paragraph (1).