Appeal against fee

(1) Whenever any Board has stipulated an assessed fee in respect of any application and the applicant is dissatisfied with the assessment, the applicant may, within ten days of notice of the assessment, serve a written notice of appeal therefrom upon that Board and upon the magistrate of the judicial district in which the applicant proposes to carry on the trade. (2) If the applicant does not first pay the assessed fee within the stipulated time, his appeal shall be dismissed. (3) The magistrate of the judicial district in which the appellant proposes to carry on the trade shall hear and determine an appeal made under this section, and his decision shall be deemed a judgment of an inferior court within the meaning of Part IX of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act.