{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1264",
  "legislation_title": "The Appeals to Traffic Commissioners (Procedure) (England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Procedure at a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Except as is otherwise provided in this regulation, the commissioner may determine the procedure at a hearing.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), a person entitled to appear at a hearing in accordance with regulation 12(1), is entitled to give evidence, call witnesses, cross examine witnesses and address the commissioner both on the evidence and generally on the subject matter of the hearing.\n(3) The giving of evidence, the calling of witnesses, the cross-examination of witnesses and the making of addresses by other persons appearing at the hearing is at the commissioner’s discretion.\n(4) The commissioner may refuse to permit—\n(a) the giving or calling of evidence;\n(b) cross examination of persons giving evidence; or\n(c) the presentation of any other matter,\nwhich the commissioner considers to be irrelevant, repetitious, frivolous or vexatious.\n(5) The commissioner may from time to time adjourn a hearing for such period as the commissioner considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1264/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:37:21.314312+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."
}