The Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1990

Records of decisions etc.

43.—(1) It shall be the duty of the clerk to make arrangements for each decision, each order made under regulation 42, and, where reasons have been given, the reasons for the decision, to be recorded.

(2) The record may be kept in any form, whether documentary or otherwise; and a copy of each entry shall be transmitted to each party to the appeal to which the entry relates.

(3) Any party to an appeal or representative of such a party may, at a reasonable time stated by or on behalf of the Tribunal concerned and without making payment, inspect records which relate to decisions and orders of the tribunal which are required to be made by paragraph (l).

(4) If without reasonable excuse a person having custody of records intentionally obstructs a person in exercising the right conferred by paragraph (3) he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level l on the standard scale.

(5) The member who presided at the hearing or determination of an appeal may authorise the correction of any clerical error in the decision or record, and a copy of the relevant entry as so amended shall be transmitted as required by paragraph (2).

(6) The production in any proceedings in any court of law of a document purporting to be certified by the clerk to be a true copy of a record or decision of that tribunal shall, unless the contrary is proved, be sufficient evidence of the document and of the facts it records.