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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-support-needs-tribunals-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-rules-2005/article-14",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/514",
  "legislation_title": "The Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-support-needs-tribunals-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Suspension of proceedings",
  "text": "(1) A convener or a Tribunal at a hearing–\n(a) shall, if both parties are so agreed, suspend proceedings in respect of a reference pending the outcome of mediation or dispute resolution under sections 15 or 16 of the Act; or\n(b) may on the application of either party, or on their own initiative, suspend such proceedings if it would be fair and just to do so.\n(2) Any such suspension may be indefinite or for such specified period as the convener or the Tribunal may consider appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/514/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:42.914789+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."
}