(1) An appeal under Section 11 against any decision of a Town Vending Committee with respect to issue of certificate of vending or cancelation or suspension of certificate of vending shall be preferred before the appellate authority constituted by the concerned local authority comprising of the Mayor or President as the Chairperson and two other members of the local authority as decided in the General Board meeting, in Form ‘C’ within thirty days from the date of communication of the order appealed against:
Provided that the appellate authority may condone the delay in case it is satisfied that appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the appeal within the prescribed time:
Provided further that in the absence of Chairperson any one of the members designated by the Chairperson may chair the meeting of the appellate authority.
(2) The appeal shall be in the form of a memorandum in Form ‘C’ and shall be signed by the appellant and presented by him in person or through his authorised representative, either in English, Hindi or the local language, as preferred by the appellant .
(3) The memorandum of appeal shall be accompanied by the original or certified copy of the order against which appeal is preferred.
(4) The appeal shall be filed in three sets and accompanied by a fee of rupees two hundred.
(5) No appeal shall be entertained unless a copy thereof has been served upon the Town Vending Committee which had made the order appealed against, prior to filing of such appeal and proof of such service has been filed along with the appeal.