{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-rules-2026/rule-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-rules-2026/rule-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/883",
  "legislation_title": "The Abuse Redress Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Hearing of appeal",
  "text": "(1) The appeal authority may not receive oral evidence or evidence which was not before the redress body, unless the appeal authority orders otherwise.\n(2) The appeal authority must allow an appeal where the decision of the redress body was wrong or was unjust because of a serious irregularity in the determination of the application.\n(3) The appeal authority may draw inferences of fact which it considers justified on the evidence.\n(4) The appeal authority may, subject to the provisions of the Measure and these Rules, regulate its own procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/883/rule/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:53.626981+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}