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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/information-tribunal-enforcement-appeals-rules-2005/article-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/14",
  "legislation_title": "The Information Tribunal (Enforcement Appeals) Rules 2005",
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  "path": "article/20",
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  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Default of appearance at hearing",
  "text": "If, without furnishing the Tribunal with sufficient reason for his absence, a party fails to appear at a hearing, having been duly notified of the hearing, the Tribunal may, if that party is the appellant, dismiss the appeal or, in any case, hear and determine the appeal, or any particular issue, in the party’s absence and may make such order as to costs as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/14/article/20",
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  "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."
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