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(1) These Rules may be cited as the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Rules 2003 and shall come into operation on 16th July 2003.
(2) In these Rules a reference to a Rule or Schedule by number is a reference to that Rule or Schedule as numbered in the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Rules 1981.
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After Rule 4(3) there shall be added the paragraph:“
(4) No later than fourteen days after receipt of the notice of appeal the Secretary of State for Defence shall forward a copy of it to the Pensions Appeal Office by first class post.”
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In Rule 24(1) after the words “entitlement appeal” add the words “or an appeal against a specified decision”.
R. D. Carswell
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Dated this 20th day of June 2003.