A person aggrieved by an overcrowding notice may appeal to the appropriate tribunal within the period of 21 days beginning with the date of service of the notice.
Such an appeal—
is to be by way of a re-hearing, but
may be determined having regard to matters of which the authority were unaware.
On an appeal the tribunal may by order confirm, quash or vary the notice.
If an appeal is brought, the notice does not become operative until—
a decision is given on the appeal which confirms the notice and the period within which an appeal to the Upper Tribunal may be brought expires without any such appeal having been brought; or
if an appeal is brought to the Upper Tribunal, a decision is given on the appeal which confirms the notice.
For the purposes of subsection (4)—
the withdrawal of an appeal has the same effect as a decision which confirms the notice appealed against; and
references to a decision which confirms the notice are to a decision which confirms it with or without variation.
The appropriate tribunal may allow an appeal to be made to it after the end of the period mentioned in subsection (1) if it is satisfied that there is good reason for the failure to appeal before the end of that period (and for any delay since then in applying for permission to appeal out of time).