Hearing of appeal

(1) Upon the receipt of such notice the Registrar shall fix a day for hearing of such appeal and shall give to the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys or to the Local Authority, as the case may be, and to the appellant at least fifteen days’ notice in writing, in Form 2 in the Schedule hereto, of the time and place of such hearing. Provided that at any time before the expiration of the last- mentioned period of fifteen days the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys or the Local Authority, as the case may be, may serve a notice on the appellant and also on the Registrar accepting the Land Tax 5 assessment contained in the appellant’s notice of appeal whereupon the proceedings shall ipso facto determine. (2) The notice required by this Rule to be given to the appellant shall be given to him personally or left at his last known place of abode or business.