{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-health-services-appeal-authority-procedure-rules-2001/article-36",
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  "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/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Failure to comply with certain directions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if any directions given to a party under this Part are not complied with by such a party without reasonable excuse, the panel may, before or at the hearing—\n(a) dismiss the whole or any part of the appeal or application,\n(b) strike out the whole or part of a respondent Health Authority's, or respondent’s reply and\n(c) where appropriate, direct that a respondent Health Authority shall be debarred from contesting an appeal altogether or, as the case may be, that a respondent shall be debarred from contesting an application altogether.\n(2) A panel shall not so dismiss or strike out or give such a direction unless it has sent notice to the party who has not complied with that direction giving an opportunity to show cause why it should not do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3750/article/36",
    "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."
}