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Article 5 Advice of a legal assessor outside a hearing which the Committee or a Panel does not accept

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Where, in proceedings but not at a hearing, a legal assessor tenders advice on a question of law to the Committee or a Panel which the Committee or the Panel does not accept—

(a)

a record shall be made by the legal assessor of the advice given (together with any question which led to that advice), and of the decision not to accept it, together with the reasons for that decision; and

(b)

a copy of the record shall be given to every party to the proceedings or their representatives.