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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-health-services-appeal-authority-procedure-rules-2001/article-44",
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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/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous powers of panel",
  "text": "(1) A panel may, if it thinks fit—\n(a) dismiss the proceedings if the appellant or the applicant, as the case may be, shall at any time give notice of the withdrawal of the appeal or the application;\n(b) if both the parties agree in writing upon the terms of a decision to be made by the panel, decide accordingly (and in making any such decision, it shall not be necessary for the panel to give reasons).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), at any stage of the proceedings a panel may direct that—\n(a) there be struck out or amended any notice, reply, supplementary statement or written representation on the grounds that it is scandalous, frivolous or vexatious; or\n(b) there be struck out any appeal or any application for want of prosecution.\n(3) Before making any direction under paragraph (2) the panel shall give notice to the party against whom it is proposed that any such direction should be made giving him an opportunity to show cause why it should not be made.",
  "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/44",
    "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."
}