Schedule Schedule: Shark fins Appeals
Subparagraph (1) of paragraph 7 allows an applicant to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a decision either to refuse to issue or to revoke an exemption certificate or to give a final penalty notice.
	Subparagraph (2) allows an appeal to be made on the grounds that the appropriate authority’s decision to refuse an application, to revoke an exemption certificate or to give a final penalty notice was based on an error of fact, was wrong in law or was unreasonable. Subparagraph (3) provides that an appeal against a decision to give a final penalty notice may also be made on the ground that the amount of the penalty imposed by the notice is unreasonable.
	Subparagraph (4) provides that on appeal against a decision to refuse to issue or to revoke an exemption certificate the First-tier Tribunal may confirm the original decision, require the decision to be reversed or require the decision to be reconsidered by the appropriate authority.
	Subparagraph (5) provides that on appeal against a decision to give a final penalty notice the First-tier Tribunal may confirm the final penalty notice, quash it or vary it by reducing the amount of the penalty.
	Subparagraph (6) provides that on appeal against a decision to give a final penalty notice the requirement to pay the penalty is suspended until the appeal is finally determined or withdrawn and no interest or other penalty is payable during the suspension period.
	Subparagraph (7) provides that references to the First-tier Tribunal, in relation to a decision of the Scottish Ministers, are to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.