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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adjudicator-to-her-majestys-land-registry-practice-and-procedure-rules-2003/article-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2171",
  "legislation_title": "The Adjudicator to Her Majesty’s Land Registry (Practice and Procedure) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adjudicator-to-her-majestys-land-registry-practice-and-procedure-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Substantive decision without a hearing",
  "text": "(1) There is a presumption that a substantive decision is made following a hearing.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (1), the adjudicator may make a substantive decision without a hearing if—\n(a) he is satisfied that there is no important public interest consideration that requires a hearing in public; and\n(b) unless paragraph (3) applies, he has served written notice on the parties in accordance with these Rules that he intends to make a substantive decision without a hearing or that he has received an application requesting that the substantive decision be made without a hearing and—\n(i) the parties agree to the substantive decision being made without a hearing; or\n(ii) the parties fail to object within the specified period for objection to the substantive decision being made without a hearing.\n(3) The adjudicator is not required to serve notice under paragraph (2)(b) if all parties have requested the adjudicator to make the substantive decision without a hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1036",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2171/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:51.070764+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."
}