Rule 67. Procedure where Competent Authority does not consider that he should refuse to record memorandum

(1) On receiving a memorandum of agreement, the Competent Authority shall, for taking decision to record memorandum or refusing to record, issue notice to the parties to agreement in Form-XXVI fixing the date and place of hearing and that in default of objections, he proposes to record the memorandum on the date so fixed. The notice under this sub-rule may be sent personally or through registered post or speed post or electronically:

Provided that the notice may be communicated orally to any party who are present at the time when notice in writing would otherwise issue.

(2) On the date so fixed the Competent Authority after hearing the parties to agreement shall take decision to record or refuse to record the memorandum:

Provided that the issue of notice under sub-rule (1) shall not be deemed to prevent the Competent Authority from refusing to record the memorandum on the date so fixed even if no objection is made by any party concerned.

(3) If on such date, the Competent Authority decides that the memorandum ought not to be recorded, he shall inform the parties present of his decision and of the reasons thereof and if any party desiring the memorandum to be recorded is not present, he shall send the said information to that party in Form-XXVII.