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Paragraph 13 Oral hearings

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(1)

The following persons shall be entitled to be present at an oral hearing (whether or not it is in private) but shall take no part in the proceedings —

(a)

the President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals;

(b)

any person undergoing training as a chairman or other member of a tribunal, or as a clerk to a tribunal, or as an adjudication officer;

(c)

any person acting on behalf of the President of the Social Security Appeal Tribunals, the Chief Adjudication Officer appointed under section 97(1B)f1 of the 1975 Act, or the Secretary of State, in the training or supervision of clerks to tribunals or adjudication officers or officers of the Secretary of State or in the monitoring of standards of adjudication by adjudication officers;

(d)

any regional or full-time chairman of appeal tribunals appointed under paragraph 1A of Schedule 10 to the 1975 Actf2; and

(e)

with the leave of the chairman of the tribunal and with the consent of every party to the proceedings actually present, any other person.

(2)

Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) affects the rights of any person mentioned in heads (a) and (b) at any oral hearing where he is sitting as a member of the tribunal or acting as its clerk, and nothing in this paragraph prevents the presence at an oral hearing of any witness.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Sub-sections 97(1) to (2E) of the Social Security Act 1975 were substituted for subsection 97(1) by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 8, paragraph 2.

f2

Paragraph 1A of Schedule 10 to the Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14) was inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 8 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41).