Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission 93I Appeals against completion notices
New section 93I introduces a process for appeals against the serving of a completion notice. Subsection (1) specifies that an appeal may be made to the Secretary of State by any of the following whether or not the notice was served on them, (a) the owner of the land, (b) a person not within paragraph (a) with an interest in the land and (c) a person who occupies the land by virtue of a licence. Subsections (2) and (5) set out the grounds for appeal and how the Secretary of State may decide any appeals before them, respectively.
	The precise details of the appeals procedure are to be set out in regulations under subsection (3), and, as in subsection (4), these regulations may include, among other matters, the period within which an appeal must be brought and how an appeal is made.
	Subsection (6) allows the Secretary of State to correct any defect, error or misdescription in the completion notice if that correction will not cause injustice to the appellant or the local planning authority.
	Subsection (7) sets out that the completion notice need not be quashed if the Secretary of State determines that while it was not served on a person on whom it should have been served, neither the person nor the appellant was substantially prejudiced by that fact.
	Subsection (8) allows for costs orders to be made with respect to completion notice appeals.