35Other applications

35 Other applications

(1) A party to a proceeding (other than an application to which the last preceding regulation applies) may apply to the Tribunal requesting the Tribunal to make an order with respect to any matter relating to the proceeding.

(2) The application shall specify the date when the proceeding was instituted and the relevant file number and shall set out the circumstances or events giving rise to the application.

(3) A party to the proceeding may consent to the making of the order sought by the application.

(4) The consent of a party may be endorsed on the application or set out in a separate document filed with the Registrar but, if the consent is set out in a separate document that is not filed with the application, that party shall serve a copy of the document on the applicant within seven days after the document is filed.

(5) Service of notice of the making of the application, or of a copy of the application, is not required to be effected on a party to the proceeding who has consented to the making of the order sought by the application and service of such a notice or copy on any other person may, with the leave of the President or of the Tribunal, be dispensed with.

(6) A party to the proceeding may lodge an objection to the application by filing with the Registrar a notice of objection within fourteen days after the notice of the making of the application was served on him.

(7) A person lodging an objection shall cause a sealed copy of the notice of objection to be served on the applicant within seven days after notice of the objection is filed with the Registrar.

(8) A notice of objection shall:

(b) specify the date on which the application was filed with the Registrar and the relevant file number;

(c) state the name of the party lodging the objection;

(d) state the grounds of the objection; and

(e) be signed by or on behalf of the party lodging the objection.

(9) The Tribunal shall consider the application and, subject to the next succeeding subregulation, may make such order in relation to the application as the Tribunal considers reasonable in the circumstances.

(10) The Tribunal shall not refuse the application in whole or in part without giving the applicant an opportunity of presenting his case and, if an objection has been lodged to the application, shall not grant the application in whole or in part without giving the party by whom the objection was lodged an opportunity of presenting his case.

Part V Ancillary matters