When must I ask a Scottish tribunal for permission to appeal its decision?

Regulation 2 ordinarily requires the deciding tribunal to receive its own permission application within 30 days beginning with the relevant date. Written decisions use the later decision-sending or reasons-sending date. Supported oral branches require their exact facts.

Responsible actor. Party seeking tribunal permission.

Identify actual relevant date under regulation 2(3) or 2(4).

This is the tribunal’s own permission route under section 46(3)(a) or 48(3)(a). The source’s oral alternatives and current chamber guidance require care. Mixed request and undertaking patterns require separate review. Review extensions and actual time directions must be checked.

Confirm the actual source event, exact branch, current regime and completion route. Only the established ordinary period is calculated.

1. Count the relevant date as day one. The ordinary endpoint is 29 calendar days later. For a written decision, establish full reasons and the later actual sending date.
2. Confirm the actual statutory or tribunal completion route and its cutoff.

Count the relevant date as day one. The ordinary endpoint is 29 calendar days later. For a written decision, establish full reasons and the later actual sending date.

Count calendar days. No automatic weekend, holiday or discretionary extension is inferred. Check the actual completion route and cutoff; earlier action may be necessary.

Fictitious example

Fictional facts. actual relevant date under regulation 2(3) or 2(4) is established as Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Selected branch. First-tier Tribunal. Written decision, later decision or reasons sent branch applies. All ordinary source conditions and the actual completion route are established.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Source condition 1

This is permission under section 46(3)(a) or 48(3)(a) of the 2014 Act to the tribunal that made its own appealable decision. The appeal is competent and any decision exclusions have been checked.

Source condition 2

For a written decision, full written reasons are available and I established the later actual decision-sending or reasons-sending date. A future promised statement is not treated as already sent.

Source condition 3

For the oral written-reasons branch, a qualifying timely request and an undertaking to provide reasons are both established. For the oral-date branch, neither exists, all parties were present and the written decision was given that day. Other oral combinations require separate review.

Source condition 4

No chamber-specific review-period extension or time direction changes the ordinary 30-day period. An application to the Upper Tribunal after refusal is the separate regulation 3 route.

Source condition 5

The ordinary current period applies. No different statutory period, direction, extension, suspension or late permission changes this calculation.

• Confirm the actual source event, exact branch, current regime and completion route. Only the established ordinary period is calculated.
• Related procedures have different actors, events and periods. This result does not replace a different appeal, review, notice-form or application requirement.

• This is permission under section 46(3)(a) or 48(3)(a) of the 2014 Act to the tribunal that made its own appealable decision. The appeal is competent and any decision exclusions have been checked.
• For a written decision, full written reasons are available and I established the later actual decision-sending or reasons-sending date. A future promised statement is not treated as already sent.
• For the oral written-reasons branch, a qualifying timely request and an undertaking to provide reasons are both established. For the oral-date branch, neither exists, all parties were present and the written decision was given that day. Other oral combinations require separate review.
• No chamber-specific review-period extension or time direction changes the ordinary 30-day period. An application to the Upper Tribunal after refusal is the separate regulation 3 route.
• The ordinary current period applies. No different statutory period, direction, extension, suspension or late permission changes this calculation.
• This is the tribunal’s own permission route under section 46(3)(a) or 48(3)(a). The source’s oral alternatives and current chamber guidance require care. Mixed request and undertaking patterns require separate review. Review extensions and actual time directions must be checked.