{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-health-services-appeal-authority-procedure-rules-2001/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-health-services-appeal-authority-procedure-rules-2001/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3750",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Health Services Appeal Authority (Procedure) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-health-services-appeal-authority-procedure-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Allocation to a panel and directions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, the President shall allocate a case to a panel after the FHSAA has received a reply to an appeal under Part II or to an application under Part III, as the case may be.\n(2) Where a party to an appeal or an application makes an application for directions before the case has been allocated to a panel, the President may allocate such an application to any panel.\n(3) Where a case has been allocated to a panel in accordance with paragraph (1), any proceedings in that case, including any application for directions by a party shall be dealt with by that panel, except where in the President’s opinion, including for reasons of urgency, the matter should be dealt with by another panel and the President shall allocate that matter to another panel accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3750/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:21:46.131464+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."
}