MR HATTINGH
I believe if we have regard to the Act, and perhaps we should first have a look at the Act and then decide whether admissibility is an issue at all and whether the attitude of the applicant is relevant at all.   If one has regard to, to start out with, Section 19.4(b), Section 19.4(b) of the Act states, it starts out at
"If an application has not been dealt with in terms of sub-Section 3, the Committee shall conduct a hearing as contemplated in Chapter 6 and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 33..."
and then we go to sub-Section (b):-
"...inform the persons referred to in paragraph (a) of their right to be present at the hearing and to testify, adduce evidence and submit any article to be taken into consideration."
	Now if we go back to Section 1 of this Act and we look at the definitions of certain words, then "article" is the very first word which is defined, and it is defined as being, it includes:-
"any evidence, book, document, file, object, writing, recording or transcribed computer printout produced by any mechanical or electronic device by any means of which information is recorded, stored or transcribed."
	Now I would suggest, from the outset, that this document that we are dealing with at the moment is such an article, which a person opposing the application is entitled to place before this Committee.