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  "legislation_title": "The Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) Rules 2006",
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  "heading": "Evidence by telephone, video link or other means",
  "text": "A convener or the Tribunal at the start of a hearing may, on the application of either party or on his, her or its own initiative, determine that a witness be allowed to give evidence by telephone, through a video link or by any other means of communication, if satisfied that this would not prejudice the achievement of the overriding objective.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "ssi/2010/152",
      "affecting_title": "The Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) Amendment Rules 2010"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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