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  "legislation_title": "The ACAS Arbitration Scheme (England and Wales) Order 2001",
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  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Preliminary hearings and directions",
  "text": "Where the arbitrator believes that there may be considerable differences between the parties over any issue, including the availability or exchange of documents, or the availability of witnesses, the arbitrator may call the parties to a preliminary hearing to address such issues, or he or she may give procedural directions in correspondence.",
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