Decisions of a tribunal in determining applications
34.—(1) This regulation applies to a decision determining an application.
(2) If a hearing was held, the decision may be given orally at the hearing.
(3) The tribunal must provide to each party, as soon as reasonably practicable after making a decision which finally disposes of an application, a notice stating the tribunal’s decision (“decision document”).
(4) The decision document must—
(a)be signed and dated by an appropriate person;
(b)set out—
(i)the decision the tribunal has made;
(ii)the reasons for reaching the decision;
(iii)the date of the decision;
(iv)any action that any party to the proceedings must take and the date by which that action must be taken; and
(c)give an explanation of the right of a party to appeal against the decision.
(5) An appropriate person may, by means of a certificate signed and dated by the appropriate person, correct any clerical mistakes in a decision document or any errors or ambiguities arising in it from an accidental slip or omission.
(6) A copy of any correction certified under paragraph (5) must be sent to each party.
(7) In this regulation “appropriate person” (“person priodol”) means—
(a)the Chair of the tribunal; or
(b)in the event of the absence or incapacity of the Chair of the tribunal, another member of the tribunal.