S.L. 234.10 Art. 4Summoning of court.

(1) Immediately upon the filing of a notice of appeal, the registrar shall communicate the fact to the Minister and to the Chairman.

(2) The registrar shall select a person to act as assessor on the appeal out of the list of assessors approved for the time being by the Minister under article 315 of the Act.

(3) The Minister, on receiving notice of the appeal, shall appoint the other assessor, and shall forthwith send the name and address of such assessor to the registrar.

(4) If the ship to which the appeal refers is a foreign ship, the registrar shall give notice to the consular officer of the country to which the ship belongs, if that country has a consular officer in Malta, that, at the request of the appellant, some competent person be selected by the consular officer to act as assessor in lieu of the assessor selected by the registrar under sub-rule (2).

(5) As soon as the registrar has ascertained by whom the appeal will be heard, he shall summon the court in the form appearing as Form No. 2 in the First Schedule, and he shall, at the same time, send notice thereof to the Minister and to the appellant in the form appearing as Form No. 3 in the said Schedule.

(6) If the survey to which the appeal refers has been made on the complaint of any person, hereinafter called the complainant, the Minister shall send to him notice of the time and place appointed for the hearing.

(7) Previous to the hearing, the Minister shall forward to the registrar, to be produced as evidence at the hearing, an official copy of the report of the surveyor.

(8) The court shall, if practicable, be summoned to hear the appeal on a day not later than fourteen days from the filing of the notice of appeal.