{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-commissioners-jurisdiction-and-procedure-regulations-1994/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-commissioners-jurisdiction-and-procedure-regulations-1994/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1812",
  "legislation_title": "The General Commissioners (Jurisdiction and Procedure) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-commissioners-jurisdiction-and-procedure-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Proceedings to be heard together or in succession",
  "text": "(1) Where two or more proceedings have been brought before, but have not yet been heard by, the General Commissioners for one or more divisions and it appears to two or more of the General Commissioners for one of those divisions—\n(a) that some common issue arises in both or all of them, or\n(b) that both or all of them are relevant to some common issue,\nthose Commissioners may, of their own motion or on an application by a party to any of those proceedings, direct that those proceedings be heard at the same time or consecutively and by the same Tribunal within their division.\n(2) A direction shall not be given under paragraph (1) above except on notice sent to all the parties to the proceedings in question who shall be entitled to be heard before any direction is given.\n(3) On the giving of a direction under paragraph (1) above, the Clerk to the General Commissioners by whom the direction is given shall send notice of the date and terms of the direction to all the parties to the proceedings and, except where all the proceedings have been brought before the General Commissioners for the same division, to the Clerk to the other division or, if more than one, each other division of General Commissioners concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1812/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:29:49.002785+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."
}