Regulation 7 - Registration of appeal or application - Competition Appellate Tribunal (Procedure) Regulations, 2011

7. Registration of appeal or application.- (1) Every appeal or application supported by an affidavit and a certified copy of the impugned direction, decision or order of the Commission, shall be verified and if found to be in order, be registered by the Registrar and shall be given a serial number. (2) If the appeal, on scrutiny, is found to be defective, the appellant shall be advised to rectify the defects and after rectification of the defects by the appellant, the appeal shall be registered. (3) The appeal registered shall be put up for hearing before the Tribunal with a notice to the appellant and the Tribunal, after hearing the appellant, may either dismiss it summarily or direct issue of notice to all necessary parties or may make such orders as the circumstances of the case may require. (4) In case, the Tribunal directs issuance of notice to the concerned parties, the Registrar shall issue notice, along with the order of the Tribunal and copy of the appeal to all the respondents. (5) Where at any stage prior to the hearing of the appeal, the appellant desires to withdraw his appeal, he shall make an application to that effect to the Tribunal.