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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2053",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Interim Orders Committee) (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 2000",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Absence of practitioner at the hearing",
  "text": "Where the practitioner is neither present nor represented at an initial hearing or a review hearing, the Commiteee may nevertheless proceed with the hearing if they are satisfied that all reasonable efforts have been made in accordance with rules 3 and 5 to serve the notice of referral or the notice of review as the case may be.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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