8.—(1) When a registration authority has disposed of an application and, if it has accepted the application, has made the necessary registration, it shall given written notice of the fact to every concerned authority, to the applicant and to every person whose address is known to the registration authority and who objected to the application, and such notice shall include, where the registration authority has accepted the application, details of the registration, and, where it has rejected the application, the reasons for the rejection.
(2) A person shall be taken to have objected to an application for the purposes of paragraph (1) above if he submitted a statement in objection to the application which the registration authority was required to consider under paragraph (2) of regulation 6 above or which it did consider under that paragraph.
(3) Where a registration authority has rejected an application, it shall return the application form and all accompanying documents to the applicant.