Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

13.  Regulation 47(1) (reinstatement of struck out appeals) shall be renumbered paragraph (2) of regulation 47 and immediately before the renumbered paragraph (2) the following paragraph shall be inserted as paragraph (1)—

“(1) The clerk to the appeal tribunal may reinstate an appeal which has been struck out in accordance with regulation 46(1)(c) where—

(a)the appellant has made representations to him or, as the case may be, further representations in support of his appeal with reasons why he considers that his appeal should not have been struck out;

(b)the representations are made in writing within one month of the order to strike out the appeal being issued; and

(c)the clerk is satisfied in the light of those representations that there are reasonable grounds for reinstating the appeal

but if the clerk is not satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for reinstatement a legally qualified panel member shall consider whether the appeal should be reinstated in accordance with paragraph (2).”.