Regulation 27 Examination management meetingsI1
England and Wales
The examining authority may hold a meeting at any time before an application is decided, if it considers it appropriate.
The purpose of an examination management meeting is to enable the examining authority to decide—
what may be done to ensure that the examination and matters preparatory or subsequent to it, are managed efficiently and expeditiously, and
what practical arrangements to make in relation to the examination and matters preparatory or subsequent to it.
The examining authority is to preside at an examination management meeting and to decide—
where and when to hold the meeting,
whether to hold the meeting wholly or partly remotely,
how to manage the meeting,
the matters to be discussed, and
the time allocated to those matters.
The examining authority is to decide who to invite to any examination management meeting, but it must invite the applicant.
The examining authority must give reasonable notice of the date, time and place of the examination management meeting to each person invited to attend it.
The notice of the examination management meeting must specify the purposes of the meeting and any matter which the examining authority wishes to discuss.
If a person invited to the examination management meeting or their representative is unwilling, unable or otherwise does not attend, the meeting may proceed.
As soon as practicable after the examination management meeting, the examining authority must prepare a note of the meeting and give it to the people invited to attend it.
In this regulation, “examination management meeting” means a meeting held pursuant to paragraph (1).