Cap. 473 чл. 22Procedure of the Appeals Board.

(1) In the exercise of its functions, the Appeals Board may summon any person to appear before it and give evidence and produce documents, and the Chairman of the Appeals Board shall have the power to administer the oath.

(2) The Appeals Board shall endeavour to determine an appeal within one hundred and eighty days from the lapse of the period by when the Authority may file its reply to the aforesaid appeal and in any case shall deliver its final decision not later than thirty days from when the parties declare that they have concluded with their evidence and made their final submissions.

(3) The Appeals Board in order to assist it in the exercise of its functions may appoint independent and impartial experts to advise it on any issue that may be relevant to any appeal lodged before it. In such cases the Appeals Board shall be entitled to make both provisional and final orders in respect of the payment of the costs and fees of such experts by any of the parties to the appeal.

(4) The Appeals Board in the exercise of its functions shall have the same powers as are competent to the First Hall, Civil Court according to law.

(5) The Minister may subject to the provisions of this Act, by regulations prescribe the procedure to be followed before the Appeals Board, and subject thereto and to any other provisions of this Act, the Appeals Board may regulate its own procedure.

(6) The Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance by regulation, establish any such fees as are considered to be necessary in relation to any proceedings before the Appeals Board.

(7) The Minister may by regulation amend any of the periods stated in sub-article (2).