Singapore legislation
Regulation 19
Regulation 19
Response
Subregulation 1
Subject to regulation 21, the competent authority may serve on the Minister a response after receiving a copy of the notice of appeal from the Appeals Secretary forwarded under regulation 15(d), except that any such response must be served on the Minister no later than 5 working days after that receipt.
Subregulation 2
Any response to a notice of appeal —
must cite the number assigned under regulation 15(b) to the notice of appeal;
must state an address in Singapore for the service of documents on the competent authority in connection with proceedings under this Part relating to the notice of appeal;
must contain a succinct presentation of the arguments upon which the competent authority will rely in responding to each ground of objection in the notice of appeal; and
must be signed and dated by the competent authority.
Subregulation 3
To file a response, the competent authority must send or cause to be sent to the Appeals Secretary —
the duly signed original of the response and its accompanying documents; and
if the competent authority is sending the response and its accompanying documents in hardcopy form, 2 copies each of the response and its accompanying documents, each certified by the competent authority to be in conformity with the original.
Subregulation 4
On receiving the response of the competent authority, the Appeals Secretary must without delay forward a copy of the response to the appellant concerned.