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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asset-transfer-request-review-procedure-scotland-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/358",
  "legislation_title": "The Asset Transfer Request (Review Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asset-transfer-request-review-procedure-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procedure at hearing",
  "text": "(1) Except as otherwise provided in these Hearing Session Rules, the procedure at a hearing session shall be as the local authority determines.\n(2) The local authority is, having considered any submission by the persons entitled to appear at the hearing session, to state at the commencement of the hearing session the procedure the local authority proposes to adopt.\n(3) Any person entitled to appear may do so on that person’s own behalf or be represented by another person.\n(4) Where there are two or more persons having a similar interest in the issues being considered at the hearing session, the local authority may allow one or more persons to appear on behalf of some or all of any persons so interested.\n(5) A hearing shall take the form of a discussion led by the local authority and cross examination is not permitted unless the local authority considers that cross examination is required to ensure a thorough examination of the issues.\n(6) Subject to paragraph (7), a person entitled to appear at a hearing session is entitled to call evidence.\n(7) The local authority may refuse to permit—\n(a) the giving or production of evidence;\n(b) the cross examination of persons giving evidence; or\n(c) the presentation of any other matter,\nwhich the local authority considers to be irrelevant or repetitious.\n(8) The local authority may proceed with a hearing session in the absence of any person entitled to appear at the hearing session.\n(9) The local authority may from time to time adjourn the hearing session and, if the date, time and place of the adjourned hearing session are announced before the adjournment, no further notice is required otherwise rule 3 applies as it applies to the variation of the date, time or place at which a hearing session is to be held.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5 in force at 23.1.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/358/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:38.586419+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."
}